COPENHAGEN PAPERS, THE. An Intrigue

Author: Frayn, Michael and David Burke
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2000
No. of pages: 129
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 6 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 5 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 1312421249
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 5459

Price: $9.50

This Tony Award-winning book concerns a 1941 meeting in the Nazi-occupied Danish capital Werner Heisenberg, head of the covert Nazi nuclear program, Neils Bohr, his former mentor. (After the war, Heisenberg was interned by the British for six months so the Allies might learn how far the German program had gotten-events also covered in the play.) One day during the British run of Copenhagen, Frayn is presented with a package that contains a few faded pages (in barely legible German) that seem to cast new light on the mystery at the heart of the play. As he puzzles over the pages, actor David Burke (who played Bohr in the London production) follows the action with close interest. After the riddle is cracked and the fog clears, Frayn and Burke together sit down to ponder the trail of the Copenhagen papers. The result is what Kirkus call “an entertaining...game of historical cat-and-mouse” A delicously intricate, whimsically philosophical little intrigue.