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Ian McEwan’s brooding and occasionally sinister novel hints at how personal relationships can be beset by demons unleashed in wider human conflict."Superbly evocative prose... The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities." - The New York Times Book ReviewJeremy, the narrator, delves into the history of his in-laws, June and Bernard, who fell in love during World War II, joined the Communist party and honeymooned in France. There, June left Bernard, who returned to London to continue his political activism. She remained, isolated in a farmhouse, contemplating her mystical encounter with God and evil during a period she refers to as her ‘Black Dogs’."As in McEwan's last novel, The Innocent (1990), the Berlin Wall plays an important symbolic role in this fictional meditation on evil—a pseudo-memoir written from a post-cold-war perspective... McEwan explores the personal consequences of political ideas in this remarkably precise little novel. His lapidary prose neatly disguises his search for transcendence." - Kirkus ReviewsIan McEwan his collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the 1975 Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include T

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Author

McEwan, Ian

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385494328

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.8 / 5 (1,404 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14