Ian McEwan

Berlin in den 50er Jahren: Der idealer Tummelplatz für Geheimdienste und Spione jeglicher Couleur. Leonard Marnham vergräbt sich immer tiefer und auswegloser in fremde, gefährliche Welten und wird von der hübschen Maria in die verborgenen Winkel menschlicher Beziehungen eingeweiht. Marnham fühlt, wie er sein Leben aufgibt - und findet es herrlich ...

Palkitun mestarikertojan odotettu romaani on haikean kaunis kertomus ihmisistä - ja sanoista, jotka he jättävät jälkeensä. Vuonna 2014 runoilija Francis Blundy lukee vaimonsa syntymäpäiväillallisella runon. Runo katoaa, ja myöhemmät sukupolvet arvuuttelevat, mistä se kertoi. Vuonna 2119 ydinasehyökkäyksen jälkimainingit ovat peittäneet suuren osan Euroopasta veteen. Kadotetun maailman varjoissa tutkija Thomas Metcalfe jäljittää intohimoisesti Blundyn runoa, mutta löytääkin tarinan rakkaudesta, rikoksesta ja ihmiskohtaloista, joka mullistaa hänen käsityksensä menneisyydestä. Taidokas romaani yhdistää loistokkaasti menneen ja tulevan. Se muistuttaa, että toivoa on aina.

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.

**Number One Sunday Times Bestseller**Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans.

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 in artificial intelligence--Machines Like Me powerfully portrays two lovers who will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first generation of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he codesigns Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and smart--and a love triangle soon forms. Ian McEwan's subversive, gripping novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human--our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, read by Billy Howle. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever â?? a love triangle soon forms.

Rose Blanche was the name of a group of young German citizens who, at their peril, protested against the war. Until the tide of the war turns and soldiers in different uniforms stream in from the East, and Rose and the imprisoned children disappear for ever .

'McEwan’s most richly layered work' Sunday Times 'A gripping page-turner' Observer 'A daring, beautiful novel, full of wisdom and heart' Elif Shafak 'A big, unabashed crowd-pleaser' TLS A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. 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, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain's remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, revelations of entangled love and a brutal crime emerge, destroying his assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately. What We Can Know is a masterpiece that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.

HVAD VI VED er et mesterstykke om to elskende, hvis historie har overlevet tidens gang, oversvømmelser og menneskehedensidioti. En roman om troen på fortiden – fyldt med hemmeligheder og bedrag. 2014: Under et vådt middagsselskab dedikerer den berømte digter Francis Blundy et digt til sin kone. Ingen af de tilstedeværende ved, at generationer fremover vil spekulere over digtets mystiske budskab. 2119: Mens store dele af England står under vand, længes den ensomme akademiker Thomas Metcalfe efter en svunden tid. Særligt ét forsvundet digt. Da han falder over et spor, der måske kan føre til genopdagelsen af digtet, afsløres historien om en voldsom kærlighed og en brutal forbrydelse. Hvad vi ved er et kærlighedsbrev til mennesker og de ord, vi efterlader.

Ien Makjuen - odin iz avtorov "pravjaschego triumvirata" sovremennoj britanskoj prozy. Laureat Bukerovskoj premii. Mirovuju izvestnost avtoru prines roman "Iskuplenie", po motivam kotorogo byl snjat odnoimennyj film s Kiroj Najtli i Dzhejmsom Makevoem. 13-letnjaja Brajoni pishet rasskazy s naivnymi sjuzhetami. No vskore ikh mesto zajmet sjuzhet iz mira vzroslykh. Stsena No 1, podsmotrennaja iz okna: starshaja sestra razdevaetsja pered sosedom Robbi i nyrjaet v fontan. Zloveschaja stsena No 2: Robbi szhimaet sestru v temnom uglu biblioteki. Stsena No 3, prervannaja neozhidannym pojavleniem: iznasilovanie kuziny. Brajoni pogloschena etoj istoriej. Istoriej, kotoruju ona ponjala nepravilno i iz-za kotoroj nachinajut rushitsja dve zhizni. U junoj pisatelnitsy budet tolko odin shans, chtoby vse ispravit. Knigi, kotorye mogut vam ponravitsja: - "Knizhnyj vor" Markus Zusak; - "Nad propastju vo rzhi" Dzh. D. Selindzher; - "Tsvety dlja Eldzhernona" Deniel Kiz; - "Desjat negritjat" Agata Kristi; - "Kollektsioner" Dzhon Faulz; - "Shokolad" Dzhoan Kharris.

Majkl Bierd - nobelevskij laureat, uchenyj s gromkim imenem i slozhnym kharakterom. Ego blestjaschee proshloe merknet na fone obrushivshejsja lichnoj zhizni i issjakajuschego vdokhnovenija. Pogrjaznuv v pjatom brake, v ljubovnykh unizhenijakh i samoobmane, on neozhidanno okazyvaetsja vtjanut v avantjuru, gde nauchnye idei, lichnye slabosti i globalnye problemy chelovechestva perepletajutsja v odin komichnyj i tragicheskij uzel.Solnechnyj svet - neischerpaemyj istochnik energii - stanovitsja ne tolko simvolom spasenija planety, no i zerkalom, v kotorom geroj vidit sobstvennuju ten.

Dvoe druzej, odin rokovoj dogovor i posledstvija, kotorykh nikto ne mog predskazat. Posle smerti obschej vozljublennoj zhizni kompozitora Klajva Linli i redaktora Vernona Khollideja perepletajutsja vnov - i vedut ikh k tragicheskoj razvjazke v Amsterdame.

Året 2014: Vid en middag hedrar den berömde poeten Francis Blundy sin frus födelsedag genom att läsa en dikt som han tillägnar henne. Ingen av vännerna runt bordet anar att dikten ska komma att bli ett litterärt mysterium som ska diskuteras i generationer framöver. Året 2119: Stora delar av världen har drabbats av stigande havsnivåer efter en katastrofal kärnkraftsolycka. De som överlever hemsöks av minnet av den rika värld som nu gått förlorad. I det som en gång var England gräver litteraturforskaren Thomas Metcalfe i arkiven från denna avlägsna tid och fascineras av den frihet och de möjligheter som då rådde. Plötsligt får han upp en ledtråd till vad som hände den mytomspunna dikten skriven av Francis Blundy hundra år tidigare. Kan diktens upptäckt avslöja en berättelse som innefattar både en omvälvande kärlek och ett brutalt mord? Ian McEwan har skrivit ännu en mästerlig roman som utforskar mänsklighetens mest grundläggande frågor om kunskap och kärlek, i vilken läsaren tvingas ifrågasätta sitt eget förhållande till tiden och minnet. "En av världens bästa nu levande författare." Sunday Times

2014: Den anerkjente poeten Francis Blundy leser et nytt dikt, «En krans for Vivien», dedikert til sin kone under en middag med venner. Diktet forsvinner sporløst, og innholdet i det blir gjenstand for spekulasjon i generasjoner. 2119: I et fremtidig Storbritannia, delvis oversvømt etter klimaendringer og en kjernefysisk katastrofe, forsøker professor Thomas Metcalfe å rekonstruere diktets opprinnelse. Han er besatt av Blundy og hans kone, og forskningen hans avdekker en historie om kjærlighet, svik og et brutalt drap som snur alt han trodde han visste, på hodet. Ian McEwans nyeste roman er en litterær detektivhistorie, en kjærlighetshistorie og en refleksjon over hva vi egentlig kan vite – om fortiden, hverandre og oss selv. Romanen lar fortid, nåtid og fremtid samtale med hverandre, og stiller spørsmål ved hvordan vi husker og blir husket.

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. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.

From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife's birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, 'A Corona for Vivien'. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found, and which remains an enduring mystery. 2119: Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the water-logged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, 'A Corona for Vivian'. How wild and full of risk their lives were, thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem's discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well. What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.