Ian McEwan
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On their wedding day, a young couple--Florence, daughter of an Oxford academic and a successful businessman, and Edward, an earnest history student with little experience of women--looks forward to the future while worrying about their upcoming wedding night.
2) Amsterdam
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Molly Lane is dead. Two of her old lovers, Clive Linley, successful modern composer and Vernon Halliday, well known publisher to THE JUDGE, Britain's premier newspaper, find themselves caught up in memories and scandal.
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When Nobel prize-winning physicist Michael Beard's personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster.
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From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—a brilliant and compassionate novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change in an instant.
"A remarkable novel, haunting and original and written in prose that anyone who writes can only envy." —The Washington Post
The calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he sees a man die in a freak hot-air...
"A remarkable novel, haunting and original and written in prose that anyone who writes can only envy." —The Washington Post
The calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he sees a man die in a freak hot-air...
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Ian McEwan is known to skirt the edge with his writing; the fringes of society, to test the limits of what we can handle perhaps in our worlds as we bring his writing home with us and allow a whole new being to enter. So it is with The Cement Garden, the story of dying family who live in a dying part of the city. The father of four children decides, in an effort to make his garden easier to control, to pave it over. In the process, he has a heart...
7) The innocent
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A young British post office technician becomes deeply involved in electronic surveillance in postwar Berlin in 1955.
8) Black dogs
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In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives forever. In this highly praised national bestseller, Ian McEwan has written his most humane and compelling novel to date.
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From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—”a sharply intelligent novel of ideas” (The New York Times) that asks whether a machine can understand the human heart, or whether we are the ones who lack understanding.
Set in an uncanny alternative 1982 London—where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough...
Set in an uncanny alternative 1982 London—where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough...
10) The cockroach
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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.
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"Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, this Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection of stories brought Ian McEwan instant recognition as one of today's most influential English writers. These tales horrify, but they are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying"--Amazon.com
12) The daydreamer
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An imaginative ten-year-old boy, who is best understood by his family, recounts some of the adventures he has while daydreaming.
13) Pokuta
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"W pewien upalny ranek 1935 roku trzynastoletnia Briony Tallis jest przypadkowym świadkiem sceny miłosnej między swoją starszą siostrą, Cecilią, a synem sprzątaczki, Robbiem. Wyobraźnia podsuwa jej najrozmaitsze interpretacje tego, co widziała. W końcu dziewczynka na głos wyraża to, co sobie dopowiedziała, i skazuje w konsekwencji niewinnego człowieka na więzienie. To ostatni wieczór, kiedy rodzina Tallisów stanowi jedność. II...
14) Chesil Beach
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On their wedding day, a young couple--Florence, daughter of an Oxford academic and a successful businessman, and Edward, an earnest history student with little experience of women--looks forward to the future while worrying about their upcoming wedding night.
15) Amsterdam
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"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...
17) Dziecko w czasie
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The abduction of his only child destroys Stephen Lewis' marriage and painfully forces him to look back on his own childhood.




