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Il 15 febbraio 2003, un sabato, Henry Perowne si sveglia nel cuore della notte in preda a un'inspiegabile euforia. Si avvicina alla finestra e osserva per qualche istante lo spettacolo della piazza su cui si affaccia casa sua. Improvvisamente si rende conto che il cielo notturno è attraversato da una scia di fuoco. Aerei in fiamme, terrorismo, fantasmi dell'Undici Settembre: è questo forse l'attacco su Londra che tutti aspetta...

Nell'inverno del '55 Berlino è ancora devastata nel corpo e nel cuore. È il tempo della guerra fredda, il tempo delle spie. Nella vita di Leonard Marnharm, il giovane tecnico inglese protagonista di questo romanzo, il "tunnel di Berlino" rappresenterà il luogo, reale e metaforico, di un viaggio apparentemente senza fine negli abissi dell'esistenza. L'amore di Leonard per la tedesca Maria ha dapprima un sapore dolcissimo...

Jeremy ha perso i genitori a otto anni in un incidente stradale: da allora va cercando dei sostituti, finché li trova definitivamente nelle figure di Bernard e June Tremaine, adottati per così dire attraverso il matrimonio con Jenny. Bernard e June si incontrano nella Londra degli anni Quaranta, a unirli è l'amore reciproco e la fede nell'ideale comunista. Ma per paradosso saranno proprio il loro amore testardo e la coc...

Can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity? A complex novel that brilliantly traces the arc of one man's ambitions and deceptions, "Solar" is a startling, witty new work from the author of "Atonement.

McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of "Amsterdam, " has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with the provocation readers have come to expect from this master of English prose.

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Londrada yasayan, Yüksek Divan Aile Hukuku Dairesinin en basarili ve ünlü hakimlerinden Fiona Maye, özel hayatindaki kriz karsisinda caresizdir Kocasi Jack onu genc bir kadin icin terk etmektedir. Fiona tam bu sirada kendini Adam Henry davasinin hakimi olarak bulur. On yedi yasinda bir lösemi hastasi olan Adam, tedavisi icin elzem olan kan naklini günah oldugu gerekcesiyle reddetmektedir. Onun kisisel haklarina saygi göstermekle bu haklari cig...

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Serena Frome is de knappe dochter van een anglicaanse bisschop. In haar laatste jaar aan de Universiteit van Cambridge wordt ze door de geheime dienst geworven en ingezet voor Operatie Suikertand, een geheime missie binnen de literaire wereld. Serena, dwangmatig lezer, wordt verliefd op een veelbelovende jonge schrijver. Kan ze haar leven undercover blijven volhouden? 'Een superieure roman over de macht van de verbeelding.' de Volkskrant

From the bestselling author of Atonement, Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour is just a speck in the universe of possible things.

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Universally acclaimed as one of the world's greatest novelists, Ian McEwan is a Booker Prize-winning, best-selling literary master. He displays a fresh facet of his considerable talent in Solar, a satirical novel rife with blistering humor. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard is fast approaching 60, a mere shell of the academic titan he once was. While his fifth marriage falls apart, Michael suddenly finds himself with an unexpected op...

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Soon to be on public television starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone. With extraordinary tenderness and insight, Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan takes us into the da...

In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World.

I did not kill my father, but sometimes I felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared with what followed. I am only including the little story of his death to explain how my sisters and I came to have such a large quantity of cement at our disposal." In the relentless summer heat, four children retreat into an isolated world left to...

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 t...

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. 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, and Nutshell, which wa...

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Joe und Claire haben an einem sonnigen Tag ein romantisches Picknick geplant. Als sie auf der Wiese sitzen und gerade eine Flasche Champagner öffnen wollen, beobachten sie einen Heiß­luftballon, der offensichtlich in Schwierigkeiten steckt. Joe eilt zu Hilfe, doch während sich einige Passagiere rechtzeitig aus der Gondel retten können, stürzt eine Person bei der Rettungsaktion in den Tod. Geplagt von Schuldgefühlen und Vorwürfen versucht Joe d...