Em meados da década de 50, Berlim está dividida segundo a lógica da Guerra Fria. A cidade ainda exibe marcas dos bombardeios da Segunda Guerra, mas tem uma vida noturna intensa - e bastante americanizada. Para fazer dinheiro nesse momento de reconstrução, alguns jovens trabalham como informantes para espiões dos …
Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from …
Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating - only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swap bodies with the family cat and his baby cousin, …
In Between the Sheets is the second collection of short stories by British writer Ian McEwan.
Sweet Tooth é um romance do escritor inglês Ian McEwan, publicado em 2012. Trata das experiências da sua protagonista, na década de 1970, que após graduar-se na universidade é recrutada pelos serviços secretos para um programa secreto de combate ao comunismo através do apoio ao mundo intelectual, surgindo complicações …
Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now her marriage of thirty …