O novo romance de um dos autores maiores da literatura contemporânea. Mais uma vez, a capacidade de Ian McEwan para surpreender o leitor. A mesma liberdade e originalidade no que se refere ao estilo, às soluções narrativas e ao enredo. O tema das alterações climáticas - também ele inesperado numa obra de ficção de …
Ja neste seu primeiro romance, Ian McEwan revelava as caracteristicas que o confirmariam como um dos maiores escritores ingleses de sua geracao: o dominio tecnico, a linguagem seca, narrativa de forte apelo visual, guinadas surpreendentes.Mesclando elementos da tradicao gotica inglesa a um enredo sem qualquer tipo de …
General FictionLarge Print Edition*A Quality Paperback Book Club SelectionA sad, chilling, precise exploration of deranged love. starred, Kirkus ReviewsWill keep readers hooked. starred, Publishers WeeklyThe calm, organized life of Joe Rose is shattered one day when Joe takes part in a rescue effort to save a child in …
The Booker Prize-winning contemporary morality tale—cleverly disguised as a comic novel—from the acclaimed author of Atonement. On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's …
In 1962, Florence and Edward celebrate their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation of their marital duties weighs over them. And unbeknownst to both, the decisions they make this night will resonate throughout their lives. With exquisite prose, Ian McEwan creates in On Chesil Beach …
In his triumphant new novel, Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement, follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne–a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children–plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly …