Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie Mallowan (first published 1946) / ISBN: 0062093703 – ‘Este livro nasceu do casamento de Agatha Christie com seu segundo marido, o jovem e brilhante arqueólogo Max Mallowan. Ao seu lado, a escritora percorreu todo o Oriente Médio. Desenterrando o passado é resultado de suas observações dos fatos ocorridos em quatro expedições arqueológicas à Síria e ao Iraque -sempre usando e abusando do típico senso de humor inglês. Agatha Christie jamais se limitou a ser uma espectadora aguda e privilegiada dos fatos: colaborou com prazer em todas as tarefas do seu marido. Afinal, um arqueólogo, de uma certa forma, não deixa de ser um detetive dedicado a desenterrar e solucionar os enigmas de um passado distante.
Ao narrar fatos reais, a Sra. Christie Mallowan utiliza suas habilidades de romancista para tornar extremamente interessantes os acontecimentos cotidianos, os lugares exóticos e os personagens inusitados que cercavam o casal. Com a grande virtude de não se levar a sério todo o tempo, Agatha Christie mostra que sabe rir, com uma ironia generosa, de tudo e de todos. Principalmente de si.
“Come, Tell Me How You Live”: An Archaeological Memoir by Agatha Christie Mallowan — ‘Agatha Christie was already a celebrated writer of mysteries in 1930 when she married archaeologist Max Mallowan. She enthusiastically joined him on archaeological expeditions in the Middle East, providing backgrounds for novels and “everyday doings and happenings”. Pre-war Syria years are remembered here, not chronologically, but in a cluster of vignettes about servants and aristocrats who peppered their lives with annoyances and pleasures’.’
|…| ‘To the world she was Agatha Christie, author of numerous bestselling mysteries and whodunits, arguably the most popular writer in the English language. But in the 1930s she wore a different hat, traveling with her husband, renowned archaeologist Max Mallowan, as he investigated the buried ruins and ancient wonders of Syria and Iraq. Described by the author as a “meandering chronicle of life on an archaeological dig,” Come, Tell Me How You Live is Dame Agatha Christie’s first-person account of her time spent in this breathtaking corner of the globe where recorded human history began. It is a fascinating, eye-opening, vibrant, and vivid portrait of a place, a people, and a past, by a legendary writer whose extraordinary popularity endures to this day; an altogether remarkable narrative of everyday life in a world now long since vanished’.’
