Ian McEwan

Die Abgründe und die Macht der Leidenschaft und der Phantasie: An einem heißen Tag im Sommer 1935 spielt die dreizehnjährige Briony Tallis Schicksal und verändert dadurch für immer das Leben dreier Menschen.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author.One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century "A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama." --John Updike, The New Yorker On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia's childhood friend. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives--together with her precocious literary gifts--brings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crime's repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.

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 ...

A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution.

Hochsommer, die alte Stadt ist von Touristen überschwemmt. Auch das Liebespaar Colin und Mary, das kein Liebespaar mehr ist, macht hier Urlaub. Sie machen sich sorgfältig zurecht für ihren Dinnerspaziergang durch die Stadt; und dann lauert im Labyrinth der beklemmend engen Gassen ein Minotaurus auf sie. Die Kanäle haben Gegenströmungen, die Lagune ungeahnte Tiefen.

Die gesamte Familie mittels einer Zaubercreme zum Verschwinden bringen, das wäre doch was, denkt sich Peter Glück - ein wenig aus Langeweile, ein wenig aus Trotz. Oder wie wäre es, einen Tag lang das Leben des Katers der Familie zu führen? Und was wäre erst, wenn Bewegung in die Puppen der Schwester käme und sie ihm ein Bein ausrissen?

Ein Roman darüber, was mit dem Leben und mit der Liebe passiert, wenn sie der Obsession eines Eindringlings ausgesetzt werden. Ein aufwühlender Roman, der zwischen den hellen und den dunklen Seiten der Liebe oszilliert, bis die Nerven reißen.

The abduction of his only child destroys Stephen Lewis' marriage and painfully forces him to look back on his own childhood

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is "a dark tour de force, perfectly fashioned" (The New York Times) from the bestselling author of Atonement.On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is a newspaper editor. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen...

***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE***Two old friends - Cline Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet, The Judge.

Eines Tages wird für Stephen und Julie der schlimmste Alptraum aller Eltern Wirklichkeit: ihre dreijährige Tochter verschwindet spurlos. Ein Roman über eine Welt, in der Bettler Lizenzen haben und Eltern darüber aufgeklärt werden, daß Kindsein eine Krankheit ist. Aber auch eine subtile Ergründung von Zeit, Zeitlosigkeit, Veränderung und Alter.

Ein Kindertraum wird Wirklichkeit: Papa ist tot, Mama stirbt und wird, damit keiner was merkt, einzementiert, und die vier Kinder - zwei Mädchen und zwei Jungen zwischen 6 und 16 - haben das große Haus in den großen Ferien für sich. Im Laufe des drückend heißen, unwirklichen Sommers kapselt sich die Gemeinschaft der Kinder mehr und mehr gegen die Außenwelt ab, und keiner merkt, daß etwas faul ist.

A member of a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin finds himself in too deep in this "wholly entertaining" work (The Wall Street Journal) from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement. Twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham's intelligence work--tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow--offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. His relationship with Maria Eckdorf, an enigmatic and beautiful West Berliner, likewise promises to loosen the bonds of his ordinary life. But the promise turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening--a night when Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.

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 balloon accident. A stranger named Jed Parry joins Rose in helping to bring the balloon to safety, but unknown to Rose, something passes between Parry and himself on that day--something that gives birth to an obsession in Parry so powerful that it will test the limits of Rose's beloved rationalism, threaten the love of his wife, Clarissa, and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.

Black Dogs is a dark and brooding masterpiece from Booker-prize winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon.

The Innocent is a startlingly prescient novel from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. Into a Berlin wrenched between East and West, comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.

Unknown to Joe, something passes between them â?? something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Joe's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.

Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds.

In the arid summer heat, four children ââ?¬â?? Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom ââ?¬â?? find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the childrenââ?¬â?¢s lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them.