Funeral in Berlin Funeral in Berlin Funeral in Berlin is a 1964 spy novel by Len Deighton set between Saturday October 5th and Sunday November 10th 1963. It was the third of four novels about an unnamed British agent. It was preceded by "The IPCRESS File" (1962) and "Horse Under Water" (1963), and followed by "Billion-Dollar Brain" (1966). The protagonist, who is unnamed, travels to Berlin to arrange the defection of a Soviet scientist named Semitsa, this being brokered by Johnny Vulkan of the Berlin intelligence community. Despite the protagonist's initial scepticism, the deal seems to have the support of Russian security-chief Colonel
The File on H. Jennie Ver Steeg from "Booklist", called it a "a witty, multilayered critique of totalitarianism, nationalism, and scholarly objectivity". "Publishers Weekly" referred to it as "an amusing parable" and to Kadare as a "Controversial Albanian dissident". They called the relationship between the govrenor and Dull Baxhaja "a masterpiece of Gogolian comedy". The File on H. The File on H. is a novel by the Albanian author Ismail Kadare. It first appeared in Albanian in 1981 under the title Dosja H. In this often-comic novel, two Homeric scholars from Ireland by way of Harvard University plan to investigate the tradition of oral