Showing results for "Ian McEwan" in World Literature

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.

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.

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.

En infernalsk historie om venskaber og magtkampe - moral og anstændighed. Om kvinden Molly, der dør, og de fire (!) mænd hun efterlader; ægtemanden George og tre elskere, hvoraf de to forenes i fælles afsky for den tredje. Historien ender i Amsterdam, og slutningen kommer unægtelig bag på de efterladte mænd.

LEKTIONER er en fængslende roman og en tankevækkende fortælling om, hvordan vi er uløseligt knyttet til tiden, vi lever i, fortalt gennem et enkelt menneskes skæbne. Mens verden forsøger at komme på fode igen efter Anden Verdenskrig, bliver elleveårige Roland Baines' liv vendt på hovedet. Han bliver sendt på kostskole i England, langt væk fra morens beskyttende kærlighed. Hans ensomhed og sårbarhed vækker stærke og komplicerede følelser i klaverlærerinden Miriam Cornell.

Denne bidende kolde vinter midt i halvtredserne er Berlin en hemmelighedsfuld heksekedel af efterkrigsneuroser, spionage og mistillid. Den unge, uerfarne engelske tekniker Leonard Marnham er i byen for at deltage i et engelsk-amerikansk projekt om aflytning af russerne. Han møder den smukke, lidt ældre Maria, som fører ham ind i kærlighedslivets glæder og får ham til at bryde alle broer. Men det kommer han til at fortryde ...