Ian McEwan: The Cement Garden, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Cement Garden
- Publisher:
- Random House UK Ltd, 06/1997
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780099755111
- Item number:
- 2907707
- Volume:
- 152 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 1997
- Weight:
- 156 g
- Format:
- 198 x 128 mm
- Thickness:
- 15 mm
- Release date:
- 5.6.1997
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Short description
'A superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right' - Tom Paulin
Description
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...
Review
"A macabre but unforgettable tale" John Boyne Guardian
Blurb
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 was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.
Biography
Ian McEwan, geboren 1948, lebt in London. Schon seine ersten Erzählungen wurden 1976 mit dem Somerset-Maugham-Award ausgezeichnet. 1999 erhielt er den Shakespeare-Preis der Alfred-Toepfer-Stiftung für das Gesamtwerk und 2011 wurde er mit dem Jerusalem Preis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. Ian McEwan ist Ehrenmitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
