検索キーワード： 著者 "Ian McEwan" すべてのカテゴリー

Inca din adolescenta, Briony Tallis isi da seama ca vrea sa abandoneze lumea himerelor pentru a scrie despre oamenii din jur si despre viata reala. Simtul exagerat al ordinii si dreptatii o impinge insa catre un act social gresit, de pe urma caruia vor avea de suferit cei dragi ei. La batranete...

It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, just married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress anxieties about the wedding night to come. On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

Michael Beard es un físico que recibió hace años el Premio Nobel por un descubrimiento que en los medios científicos se conoce como la Combinación Beard-Einstein -y aquí comienza la feroz, irresistible ironía de McEwan, porque "combinación" implica también simbiosis, confusión-, y desde entonces se ha limitado a vivir apoltronado en sus laureles. Beard tiene ahora cincuenta y pocos años, y se encuentra en el tramo final de su quinto matrimonio, un final que no se parece en nada a los de sus cuatro uniones anteriores, menos emocionales y más convencionales.

Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

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.

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining island archipelagos, pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith.

Molly Lane ha muerto a los cuarenta y seis años de edad. Era una mujer muy libre, muy seductora, y en su entierro se encuentran presentes los cuatro hombres más importantes de su vida: Clive Linley, músico famoso; Vernon Halliday, periodista y director de uno de los grandes periódicos del país; George Lane, su poderoso y multimillonario marido, y Julian Garmony, un notorio político de derechas, actual ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y candidato a primer ministro.

Henry Perowne, 48, ist ein zufriedener Mann: Erfolgreich als Neurochirurg, glücklich verheiratet, zwei begabte Kinder. Das einzige, was ihn leicht beunruhigt, ist der Zustand der Welt. Es ist Samstag, und er freut sich auf sein Squashspiel. Doch an diesem speziellen Samstag, dem 15. Februar 2003, ist nicht nur die größte Friedensdemonstration aller Zeiten in London.

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. With trademark intelligence, insight and scabrous humour, Ian McEwan pays tribute to Franz Kafka’s most famous work to engage with a world turned on its head.

On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had had other lovers too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister.

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 aspettano, specialmente ora che il governo Blair appoggia l'invasione americana dell'Iraq? Henry Perowne è un uomo soddisfatto della propria vita.

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, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history.

Im Jahr 2119: Die Welt ist überschwemmt, Europa eine Insellandschaft, Freiheit und Reichtum unserer Gegenwart – ein ferner Traum. Der Literaturwissenschaftler Thomas Metcalfe sucht ein verschollenes Gedicht von Weltrang. Der Dichter Francis Blundy hat es 2014 seiner Frau Vivien gewidmet und nur ein einziges Mal vorgetragen. In all den Spuren, die das berühmte Paar hinterlassen hat, stößt Thomas auf eine geheime Liebe, aber auch auf ein Verbrechen. Ian McEwan entwirft meisterhaft eine zukünftige Welt, in der nicht alles verloren ist.

In Inghilterra, secondo Philip Larkin, "i rapporti sessuali incominciarono nel millenovecentosessantatre", "tra la fine del bando a "Lady Chatterley" e il primo ellepi dei Beatles". La giovane coppia protagonista del nuovo romanzo di lan McEwan patisce invece gli ultimi fuochi di un clima diffuso di repressione sessuale. La prima notte di nozze, e prima esperienza sessuale per entrambi, scocca infatti alla vigilia di quell'"annus mirabilis". Tutto avviene in appena due ore, in un antiquato hotel vicino alla celebre spiaggia di ciottoli di Chesil Beach.

It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come.

Lørdag begynder godt for den succesfulde læge og familiefar Henry Perowne, men sådan bliver det ikke ved. Et fly i brand over London, flere hundredetusind demonstranter i gaderne mod Irakkrigen og mødet med en sindsforstyrret mand ændrer tingene.

Figlio del capitano Robert Baines, autoritario veterano della Seconda guerra mondiale ora di stanza in Nord Africa, e di sua moglie Rosalind, Roland fatica a capire perché a soli undici anni gli tocchi lasciare le pietre calde e la pazza libertà di Libia, e il fianco tiepido di sua madre, per affrontare un'istruzione rigorosa e solitaria nella fredda Inghilterra.

A tredici anni un amore che sboccia può sembrare un plagio. Una ragazzina che assiste a una violenza può convincersi di aver riconosciuto il responsabile e far condannare un innocente, rovinandolo e rovinandosi. Perché tutta la vita sarà segnata dalle conseguenze. La ragazzina crescerà, diventerà una scrittrice, ma non si libererà del peso dell'ingiustizia inferta a un innocente, alla propria sorella innamorata e in fin dei conti anche a se stessa.

Roland Baines ist noch ein Kind, als er 1959 im Internat der Person begegnet, die sein Leben aus der Bahn werfen wird: der Klavierlehrerin Miriam Cornell. Roland ist junger Vater, als seine deutsche Frau Alissa ihn und das vier Monate alte Baby verlässt. Es ist das Jahr 1986. Während die Welt sich wegen Tschernobyl sorgt, beginnt Roland, nach Antworten zu suchen, zu seiner Herkunft, seinem rastlosen Leben und all dem, was Alissa von ihm fortgetrieben hat.

Tienen poco más de veinte años, y se conocieron en una manifestación contra 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, y viven en una casa donde se comen quesos franceses y yogur. Edward, en cambio, pertenece a una familia que apenas se sos­tiene en la zona baja de la clase media; su padre es maestro, y su madre, tras un imprevisible accidente, vive desde hace años en una nebulosa.