Black Dogs

A masterful novel about a marriage fractured along the fault lines of faith, politics and moral belief from the Sunday Times bestselling author

AvIan McEwan

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Engelska, 2010

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Black Dogs is a dark and brooding masterpiece from Booker-prize winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan.In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had planned an idyllic holiday, but in France they witness an event that alters the course of their lives entirely.Forty years on, their son-in-law is trying to uncover the cause of their estrangement and is led back to this moment on honeymoon and an experience of such darkness it was to wrench the couple apart.'Brilliant... A meditation on the intoxications of violence and the redemptive power of love' New Yorker'Superbly evocative... The novel's of vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities' New York Times‘Powerful... Unforgettable’ Sunday Telegraph‘Thoughtful and compassionate’ London Review of Books

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-03-11
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781409089957
Förlag:Vintage Publishing

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Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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"Superbly evocative prose... The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities" New York Times Book Review "Brilliant...a meditation on the intoxications of violence and the redemptive power of love" New Yorker "Compassionate without resorting to sentimentality, clever without ever losing its honesty, an undisguised novel of ideas which is also Ian McEwan's most human work" Times Literary Supplement "Powerful... Unforgettable" Sunday Telegraph