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Ian McEwan

    21 de junio de 1948

    Ian McEwan es un aclamado autor británico, reconocido por sus incisivas novelas que profundizan en las complejidades de la psicología y la moral humanas. Su precisión estilística y su habilidad para evocar emociones profundas hacen que sus obras sean inolvidables. Las narrativas de McEwan a menudo exploran temas de culpa, memoria y las consecuencias de gran alcance de las decisiones cruciales. Escribe con un delicado equilibrio entre la profundidad intelectual y la resonancia emocional, lo que le ha valido el reconocimiento mundial.

    Ian McEwan
    Vintage - 21: Atonement
    The Rational Optimist
    Rose Blanche
    Amsterdam
    Chesil Beach
    Primer amor, últimos ritos
    • Nel 2119: il mondo è sommerso, l'Europa è un paesaggio insulare, la libertà e la ricchezza del nostro presente sono un sogno lontano. Il letterato Thomas Metcalfe cerca una poesia perduta di fama mondiale. Il poeta Francis Blundy l'ha dedicata nel 2014 a sua moglie Vivien e l'ha recitata solo una volta. Tra le tracce lasciate dalla famosa coppia, Thomas scopre un amore segreto, ma anche un crimine. Ian McEwan delinea magistralmente un futuro in cui non tutto è perduto.

      Quello che possiamo sapere2025
    • While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes, and he is left alone with their baby son. Her disappearance sparks of journey of discovery that will continue for decades, as Roland confronts the reality of his rootless existence and attempts to embrace the uncertainty - and freedom - of his future.

      Lessons2022
      3,6
    • Erkenntnis und Schönheit

      Über Wissenschaft, Literatur und Religion

      Ian McEwan betrachtet die Geschichte der Wissenschaft als faszinierende Saga, die intellektuellen Mut und Inspiration vereint. In brillanten Essays untersucht er das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Literatur sowie die Verbindung zu unserer menschlichen Natur, illustriert durch Figuren wie Darwin, Einstein und Turing.

      Erkenntnis und Schönheit2020
      4,0
    • Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

      • 352 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Anappara creates an endearing and highly engaging narrator to navigate us through the dark underbelly of modern India' Observer We children are not just stories. We live. Come and see. Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a boy at school goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from episodes of Police Patrol to find him. With Pari and Faiz by his side, Jai ventures into some of the most dangerous parts of the sprawling Indian city; the bazaar at night, and even the railway station at the end of the Purple Line. But kids continue to vanish, and the trio must confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force and soul-snatching djinns in order to uncover the truth.

      Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line2020
      3,9
    • Science

      • 144 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      VINTAGE GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

      Science2019
      3,3
    • Machines Like Me

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions- what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.

      Machines Like Me2019
      3,6
    • "Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain – and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy."--Publisher description.

      The cockroach2019
      3,2
    • Il mio romanzo viola profumato

      Seguito da L'io

      • 58 páginas
      • 3 horas de lectura

      Fin da ragazzi, Parker e Jocelyn hanno condiviso letture, progetti e ambizioni letterarie, forgiando un'amicizia destinata a durare. Le loro carriere hanno preso strade opposte: Jocelyn ha raggiunto un improvviso successo, mentre Parker ha vissuto un rapido declino, con una famiglia numerosa e un lavoro da insegnante, i suoi pochi libri ormai dimenticati. Nonostante le loro vite si siano drasticamente separate, continuano a considerarsi "una famiglia". Tuttavia, tutto cambia quando Parker trova il dattiloscritto dell'ultimo romanzo di Jocelyn nella sua casa. Leggendolo, si rende conto che è il migliore che Jocelyn abbia mai scritto e potrebbe garantirgli la posterità. La tentazione di appropriarsi di quell'opera diventa irresistibile. Ma cosa significa davvero essere "io" o "lui"? Secondo una prospettiva cara ai romanzieri, l'io è un "racconto incessantemente riscritto", una "storia che raccontiamo a noi stessi". Così, se la biografia si sdoppia - con lo scrittore di successo contrapposto all'everyman travolto dal quotidiano - anche il racconto dell'io può sdoppiarsi, permettendo che tra le pagine di un unico romanzo si consumi il crimine perfetto.

      Il mio romanzo viola profumato2018
      3,5
    • The Children Act, Film Tie-In

      • 224 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Compulsively readable... McEwan's prose keeps its cutting edge and his books are the ones the reading public still crave... A masterly balance between research and imagination... One feels an immediate pleasure in returning to prose of uncommon clarity, unshowiness and control The Times

      The Children Act, Film Tie-In2018
      3,6
    • Du monde entier: Dans une coque de noix

      Roman

      • 224 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      "À l'étroit dans le ventre de ma mère, alors qu'il ne reste plus que quelques semaines avant mon entrée dans le monde, je veille. J'entends tout. Un complot se trame contre mon père. Ma mère et son amant veulent se débarrasser de lui. La belle, si belle Trudy préfère à mon père, John, poète talentueux en mal de reconnaissance et qui pourtant l'aime à la folie, cet ignare de Claude. Et voilà que j'apprends que Claude n'est autre que mon oncle : le frère de mon père. Un crime passionnel doublé d'un fratricide qui me fera peut-être voir le jour en prison, orphelin pour toujours ! Je dois les en empêcher." Il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume d'Angleterre du XXIe siècle? Après L'intérêt de l'enfant, Ian McEwan n'en finit pas de surprendre et compose ici, dans un bref roman à l'intensité remarquable, une brillante réécriture d'Hamlet in utero.

      Du monde entier: Dans une coque de noix2017
      3,4
    • Rainbow pocketboeken - 1208: Suikertand

      • 400 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      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 meesterlijk boek over liefde, list en bedrog en een spel met de werkelijkheid.

      Rainbow pocketboeken - 1208: Suikertand2016
      3,4
    • DO NO HARM

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone’s life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong? With astonishing compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon’s life. Do No Harm provides unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital. Above all, it is a lesson in the need for hope when faced with life’s most difficult decisions.

      DO NO HARM2016
      4,3
    • Nutshell

      • 224 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      **Sunday TimesNumber One Bestseller** A classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's best storytellers - 'a masterpiece' The Times Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot- the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. 'An astonishing act of literary ventriloquism unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master...' Daily Telegraph

      Nutshell2016
      3,7
    • Super ET: Espiazione

      • 381 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      All'età di tredici anni, in un caldo giorno d'estate del 1935, Briony Tallis sente di essere diventata una scrittrice. La sera stessa, accusando di un crimine odioso un innocente, commette l'errore che la segnerà per tutta la vita. Eppure la giornata era iniziata sotto i migliori auspici. C'era la commedia da mettere in scena, i cugini arrivati dal nord per trascorrere qualche tempo in casa Tallis, e da Londra era atteso l'amatissimo fratello Leon con un amico, industriale della cioccolata. Soltanto la sorella maggiore Cecilia impensieriva Briony, con quel suo misterioso rapporto che la legava a Robbie Turner, il figlio della loro donna di servizio. Tutti i personaggi entrano in scena ma, nella commedia della vita, non ci sono prove prima della recita e ogni gesto assume un carattere definitivo. Presto, sarà troppo tardi per fermare la macchina dell'ingiustizia e la guerra arriverà a spazzare via il vecchio mondo con le sue raffinate ipocrisie.

      Super ET: Espiazione2015
      4,3
    • The Children Act

      Lektüre mit Audio-Online

      • 112 páginas
      • 4 horas de lectura

      Few authors in contemporary English literature are as significant as Ian McEwan. Over his forty-year career, he has produced remarkable works such as Atonement, Amsterdam, and Enduring Love. His books are distinguished by precise prose, an atmosphere of suspense, and surprising twists that challenge readers until the end. Recently, his literature has emphasized the defense of scientific rationality against religious fundamentalism, a central theme in this narrative. The protagonist, Fiona Maye, is a High Court judge specializing in Family Law, known for her "divine impartiality and devilish intelligence." However, her professional success contrasts with personal failures, including regret over not having children and a troubled marriage. After her husband leaves, Fiona faces the case of Adam Henry, a seventeen-year-old boy with leukemia who needs a blood transfusion, but whose family, Jehovah's Witnesses, resists the procedure. The dilemma extends beyond the judicial decision, as Fiona, while advocating for rationalism, finds herself unexpectedly moved by Adam, a cultured and sensitive young man, prompting her to reflect on her life and emotions.

      The Children Act2014
      3,7
    • Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase, but the fight goes on, especially in the cultural sphere. Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is sent on a 'secret mission' which brings her into the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one. McEwan's mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self.

      Sweet tooth2012
      3,4
    • Vintage - 21: Atonement

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      On the hottest day of summer in 1934, Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is her childhood friend, Robbie Turner. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever: Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed an unimagined boundary, and Briony will have committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

      Vintage - 21: Atonement2011
      4,1
    • Solar

      • 390 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, 'Solar' is a serious and darkly satirical novel, showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time. It is a story of one man's greed and self-deception

      Solar2010
      3,2
    • The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Genome" and "The Red Queen" offers a provocative case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change--cultural evolution--will inevitably increase human prosperity.

      The Rational Optimist2010
      4,1
    • Иэн Макьюэн – один из авторов «правящего триумвирата» современной британской прозы (наряду с Джулианом Барнсом и Мартином Эмисом). Его «Амстердам» получил Букеровскую премию. Русский перевод романа стал интеллектуальным бестселлером, а работа Виктора Голышева была отмечена российской премией «Малый Букер», в первый и единственный раз присужденной именно за перевод. Двое друзей – преуспевающий главный редактор популярной ежедневной газеты и знаменитый композитор, работающий над «Симфонией тысячелетия», – заключают соглашение об эвтаназии: если один из них впадет в состояние беспамятства и перестанет себя контролировать, то другой обязуется его убить…

      Амстердам (Amsterdam)2009
      4,0
    • For you: The libretto

      • 68 páginas
      • 3 horas de lectura

      A powerful drama of passion, obsession and tragedy from one of Britain's greatest living writers.

      For you: The libretto2008
      3,4
    • Chesil Beach

      • 192 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      Tienen poco más de veinte años y se conocieron en una manifestación en contra de las armas nucleares. Florence es una chica de clase media alta, su padre es un exitoso hombre de negocios y su madre una activa profesora universitaria. Edward, en cambio, pertenece a una familia que apenas se sostiene en la zona baja de la clase media. Florence es violinista y Edward ha estudiado historia. Y ambos son inocentes y vírgenes y se aman. Es un día de julio de 1962, un año antes de que, según Philip Larkin, en Inglaterra se empezara a follar, cuando El amante de Lady Chatterley aún estaba prohibido, no había aparecido el primer LP de los Beatles y el tsunami de la revolución sexual no había llegado a esas costas.

      Chesil Beach2007
      3,6
    • Rainbow Pocketbooks: Boetekleed

      • 507 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      Het is 1935. Briony en Cecilia Tallis, twee zussen uit een rijke Engelse familie, brengen met hun familie de zomer door op een landgoed. Het lijkt een normale hete zomerdag te gaan worden, maar als Briony haar zus en hun vriend Robbie bespiedt bij de fontein van het landhuis krijgt dit voorval door haar verbeeldingskracht grote gevolgen. Als later op de dag een misdaad gepleegd wordt beschuldigt ze Robbie hiervan. Dit heeft desastreuze gevolgen en verandert het leven van alledrie voorgoed.

      Rainbow Pocketbooks: Boetekleed2005
      3,9
    • Saturday

      • 304 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      Saturday, February 15th, 2003, Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window and filled with a growing unease. As he looks out at the night sky he is troubled by the state of the world - the impending war with Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city and his happy family life are under threat.

      Saturday2004
      3,7
    • Rose Blanche

      • 32 páginas
      • 2 horas de lectura

      Rose Blanche was the name of a group of young German citizens who, at their peril, protested against the war. Until the tide of the war turns and soldiers in different uniforms stream in from the East, and Rose and the imprisoned children disappear for ever .

      Rose Blanche2004
      4,2
    • Du monde entier: Expiation

      Roman - Traduit de l'anglais par Guillemette Belleteste

      • 496 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      Sous la canicule qui frappe l'Angleterre en ce mois d'août 1935, la jeune Briony a trouvé sa vocation : elle sera romancière. Finsi les contes de fées et les mélodrames de l'enfance. Du haut de ses treize ans, elle voit dans le roman un moyen de déchiffrer le monde. Mais lorsqu'elle surprend sa grande sœur Cecilia avec Robbie, fils de domestique, sa réaction naïve aux désirs des adultes va provoquer une tragédie. Trois vies basculent et divergent, pour ne se recroiser que cinq ans plus tard, dans le chaos de la guerre, entre la déroute de Dunkerque et les prémices du Blitz. La brutalité du réel va faire mûrir Briony. Mais est-il encore temps d'expier un crime d'enfance ? Prolongeant une grande tradition anglaise, celle de Lawrence et du Messager, tout en s'interrogeant sur les pouvoirs et les limites du romancier, Ian McEwan restitue, avec une égale maîtrise, les frémissements d'une conscience et les rapports de classes, la splendeur indifférente de la nature et les tourments d'une Histoire aveugle aux individus. Peintre admirable de la fragilité du bonheur et de la douleur du souvenir, il nous livre, avec Expiation, son roman le plus abouti.

      Du monde entier: Expiation2003
      4,2
    • Abbitte

      Roman

      • 533 páginas
      • 19 horas de lectura
      Abbitte2002
    • In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Ian McEwan. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Ian McEwan, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide will deal with McEwan's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

      Ian McEwan: The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature: The child in time, Enduring love, Atonement2002
      3,2
    • Granta 73

      Necessary Journeys

      • 256 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Travel is no longer a luxury and not always an entertainment. Many journeys need to be made‹to get home or away from an enemy, to work, to find a last resting place, or because someone has told you to go. This issue of Granta is about such journeys; you might call it necessary travel writing, with Decca Aitkenhead: looking for cheap sex and drugs; Manuel Bauer: a child¹s escape over the Himalayas; Isabel Hilton: what have they done to Beijing?; Ian Jack: the train crash that stopped Britain; Ryszrd Kapuscinski: in the forests of Cameroon; Ian McEwan: on the retreat to Dunkirk, 1940; John Ryle: the last Emperor makes his last journey; Dayanita Singh: inside a sanctuary for girls in Benares; Simon Winchester: how Britain and the US made a people homeless; plus the untold story of how the FBI pursued James Baldwin at home, revealed by James Campbell. Granta is the paperback magazine of new writing. Every issue features the best new fiction, reportage, memoir and photography, generally collected under a theme.

      Granta 732001
      3,7
    • Atonement

      • 371 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

      Atonement2001
      4,0
    • Nezničitelná láska

      • 222 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Nezničitelná láska, román z roku 1997, pojednává o obyčejných lidech v neobyčejných situacích. Vše začíná tragickou nehodou v balonu, jíž se Joe Rose – nosná postava příběhu – marně snaží zabránit. V této chvíli se setkává s Jedem Parrym, jenž se stává třetím v podivném lidském trojúhelníku – Rose, jeho žena Clarissa a Parry. Příběh vypráví, jak obyčejný člověk, lapený do sítě bludů jiného člověka, může být přiveden až na okraj šílenství a vraždy.

      Nezničitelná láska2000
      4,1
    • Enttäuscht von Los Angeles, beschließt ein englischer Schriftsteller, Abschied zu feiern. Er trifft sich mit seinen Freunden – einer feministischen Buchhändlerin, einem frustrierten Schürzenjäger und einem Partyzubehörverleiher – zu ein paar Drinks. Was sich als gemütlicher Abend anläßt, wird schon bald zum Alptraum.90

      Psychopolis: Abschied aus L.A.2000
      3,0
    • Sous les draps et autres nouvelles

      • 416 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      Les voies qui mènent à la découverte de la sexualité sont multiples, comme le prouvent ces histoires dont les héros sont souvent des enfants. Mais l'innocence enfantine peut cacher des réserves de dépravation insoupçonnées, et du besoin d'amour naît parfois la pire perversité. Toutes ces nouvelles parlent d'amour, de son excès ou de son absence, du désir et de ses frustrations, de ses fantasmes, de ses délires sadiques ou masochistes... Le mal rôde sous le masque de la banale réalité quotidienne ; même les papillons à l'occasion deviennent sinistres... Insolites et insolentes, provocatrices, hautement originales, les nouvelles de Ian McEwan surprennent toujours, choquent parfois ; elles représentent un tour de force de concision et d'humour noir.

      Sous les draps et autres nouvelles1999
      3,0
    • The story begins on a windy spring day in the Chilterns when the calm, organized life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Joe reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife, Clarissa, and drive him to take desperate measures to stay alive.

      Enduring Love1998
      3,7
    • Amsterdam

      • 200 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      Molly Lane ha fallecido a los cuarenta y seis años, dejando tras de sí a cuatro hombres clave en su vida: Clive Linley, un músico famoso; Vernon Halliday, un periodista y director de un gran periódico; George Lane, su multimillonario esposo; y Julian Garmony, un político de derechas y candidato a primer ministro. Clive y Vernon, amigos desde los años sesenta, fueron amantes de Molly en su juventud, mientras que George entró más tarde en su vida, convirtiéndose en su cuidador durante su deterioro mental. La relación de Molly con Garmony, representante de todo lo que Clive y Vernon despreciaban, es un misterio para ellos. Sin embargo, la verdad saldrá a la luz cuando George ofrezca a Vernon unas impactantes fotos de Garmony vestido de mujer, tomadas por Molly. Este descubrimiento desatará una feroz, cínica y mordiente fábula moral que explorará los secretos y las complejidades de sus relaciones. En este contexto, se revelarán no solo los vínculos entre los hombres y Molly, sino también las tensiones entre sus ideales y la realidad que los rodea.

      Amsterdam1998
      3,5
    • I Miti - 80: Lettera a Berlino

      • 298 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      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, ma c'è ancora nell'aria come un morbo latente di violenza, di disfacimento, che a poco a poco invade i pensieri, i gesti, le azioni quotidiane. Nel momento cruciale della sua esistenza, Leonard appare sopraffatto da una forza e da un orrore che lo trascendono.

      I Miti - 80: Lettera a Berlino1997
      3,4
    • Einaudi Tascabili - 339: Lettera a Berlino

      • 252 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Berlino, inverno 1955: il tempo della guerra fredda, il tempo delle spie. Nelle viscere della città devastata si lavora all'"Operazione Oro", lo scavo di un tunnel al confine con la zona russa, allo scopo di immettersi sulle frequenze telefoniche sovietiche ed intercettare i messaggi operativi: un progetto ardito e pericoloso a cui collaborano la Cia e l'M16, i due servizi segreti alleati ed al tempo stesso rivali. In un simile clima di tensione e sospetto prende avvio la vicenda di Leonard, timido tecnico inglese coinvolto nel progetto spionistico, e Maria, donna tedesca, esuberante e desiderosa di vivere: una struggente storia d'amore e di iniziazione ai sensi ed alle emozioni. Un genere classico, la spy - story, reinventato da McEwan in un crescendo di orrore che a poco a poco dilaga sino all'esplodere della tragedia, ineluttabile e cruenta come un mito greco.

      Einaudi Tascabili - 339: Lettera a Berlino1996
      3,9
    • The daydreamer

      • 160 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Zu Ian McEwans großen literarischen Qualitäten zählt sein hohes Einfühlungsvermögen in die Psyche von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Davon legt auch »The Daydreamer« Zeugnis ab: Der zehnjährige Peter Fortune, »a difficult child«, lebt in seiner eigenen Welt der Fantasie. Er besitzt die Fähigkeit, sich und seine Umgebung zu verwandeln. Das führt zu den abenteuerlichsten Verwicklungen und erstaunlichsten »Lösungen«. Ein Buch für Kinder und für Erwachsene; eine Erinnerung an die eigene Kindheit und eine Besinnung auf das, was daraus geworden ist. Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2 (GER)

      The daydreamer1995
      3,8
    • Black Dogs

      • 256 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      One of today's most celebrated novelists returns with a novel about family and political loyalties at the end of the Cold War. Writing a memoir of his parents-in-law, Jeremy relates the strange events that brought June and Bernard Tremaine together and set them apart. McEwan is the author of The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

      Black Dogs1992
      3,5
    • The Innocent

      • 240 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life -- and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening -- a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed. "From the Paperback edition.

      The Innocent1990
      3,7
    • The child in time

      • 224 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is briefly distracted. What ensues causes Lewis to spiral into a bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and possibly time itself. Winner of the 1987 Whitbread Prize for Fiction.

      The child in time1988
      3,6
    • Der Trost von Fremden : Roman

      • 188 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      Hochsommer, die alte Stadt ist von Touristen überschwemmt. Auch das Liebespaar Colin und Mary, das kein Liebespaar mehr ist, macht hier Urlaub. Sie machen sich sorgfältig zurecht für ihren Dinnerspaziergang durch die Stadt; und dann lauert im Labyrinth der beklemmend engen Gassen ein Minotaurus auf sie. Die Kanäle haben Gegenströmungen, die Lagune ungeahnte Tiefen.

      Der Trost von Fremden : Roman1985
      3,2
    • A Move Abroad

      • 117 páginas
      • 5 horas de lectura

      "Or Shall We Die", an oratorio commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, concerns the arms race and our future. Ian McEwan, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for his collection of short stories, "First Love, Last Rites" is also the author of "The Cement Garden".

      A Move Abroad1984
      3,5
    • The Comfort of Strangers

      • 128 páginas
      • 5 horas de lectura

      An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here Set in Venice, two unsuspecting tourists, Colin and Mary, are vulnerable prey for those who know their way around. When searching for a restaurant, the couple encounters a polite man called Robert, who offers help, and then they enjoy a night of story telling and drinking. Yet somehow they will meet him again and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.

      The Comfort of Strangers1982
      3,5
    • The first novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam. In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves.

      The cement garden1980
      3,6
    • In between the sheets and other stories

      • 128 páginas
      • 5 horas de lectura

      A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his collection of short stories entitled "First Love, Last Rites" and is the author of "The Comfort of Strangers" and "A Child in Time".

      In between the sheets and other stories1979
      3,1
    • Primer amor, últimos ritos

      • 144 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      Con la publicación de este libro, que fue galardonado con el premio Somerset Maugham, Ian McEwan se convirtió en la revelación literaria inglesa de finales de los años setenta. Posteriormente, confirmó de sobra las esperanzas suscitadas. En los ocho relatos de Primer amor, últimos ritos, bajo las manipulacionesde McEwan la depravación puede enmascararse de inocencia y las mariposas pueden resultar siniestras. Con igual fuerza puede mostrar cómo la vida de un niñopuede ser arrasada por lo macabro o destilar las primeras sensaciones del primer amor, rastreando sus rituales iniciáticos, infundiéndoles una lujuriante imaginería sensual. Asociando lo insólito y la provocación, la ternura y un humor glacial, Ian McEwan nos revela la cara oculta de nuestros fantasmas y nos ofrece una visión diferente de nuestra vida cotidiana.

      Primer amor, últimos ritos1976
      3,7