le carre: the thing he's actually good at (possibly)

Oh that's my friend Ania, didn't know she worked for the Palestinians! Good on her.

This bookstore plot seems pleasantly eccentric.

I'm somewhat less enthused by the politics here - "Middle Eastern causes" quite a nebulous conceit and Edward's solidarity springing from seeing a massacre in Bosnia, as opposed to anything closer to home/the nations the UK is geopolitically aligned with, feels like an odd sort of displacement.

I think I agree on the last point. I don't get why Bosnia should spur Edward to anything, whereas lots of UK or Western foreign policy might.