Amsterdam, English edition

Winner of the Booker Prize 1998

von Ian McEwan

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Taschenbuch
192 Seiten; 196 mm
Sprache English
1999 Vintage, London
ISBN 978-0-09-927277-9

Besprechung

A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness Sunday Telegraph

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Kurztext / Annotation

Ein Politiker und ein Komponist haben eines gemein. Sie hatten dieselbe Frau zur Geliebten. Bei deren Begräbnis sehen sie sich wieder und schließen einen Pakt: Sollte einer von ihnen unheilbar erkranken, soll der andere das Leiden abkürzen. Bald werden beide vor schwerwiegende Entscheidungen gestellt, ihr Freundschaftspakt entwickelt eine gefährliche Dynamik.

Langtext

Two old friends - Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane.

Both men had been Molly's lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet, The Judge. In the weeks that follow, Clive and Vernon's lives become bound together in ways neither could have imagined. Two dubious moral decisions and a pact made in extremis lead them both to the heart of Amsterdam, and to their doom.

'The novel twists and turns unexpectedly...McEwan has a master's control over his instrument' Sunday Times

Biografische Anmerkung zu den Verfassern

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. 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; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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