Ian McEwan

The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan. A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies.

Ein englisches Paar auf der Hochzeitsreise: Inmitten der Naturschönheiten Südfrankreichs begegnen June zwei gräßliche Hunde, die sie nie mehr vergessen wird. Bernard kann ihre aufgewühlten Gefühle nicht verstehen. Die Wege der Jungvermählten beginnen sich zu trennen ... McEwan, der Erkunder der dunklen Seite des Menschen, umkreist in 'Schwarze Hunde' das Abgründige mit einer an Conrad erinnernden Meisterschaft.

He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating - only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swap bodies with the family cat and his baby cousin, Kenneth, or wipe out his entire family with vanishing cream.

Peter Fortune is a boy who likes to daydream. He dreams about swapping bodies with his cat and with his baby cousin, but he gets so lost heâ??s unsure where one fantasy finishes and the next begins. Cartwheeling through these transformations, Peter eventually finds himself in an adult body experiencing the adventure of falling in love.

At once chilling and beguiling, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement and one of literature's most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease, is "an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind" (The New York Times Book Review). A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence. Don't miss Ian McEwan's new novel, Lessons.

While on holiday, a young couple meets the son of the local gentry and his wife and are drawn by sexual obsession into a nightmare of violence

From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement--a taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric collection of stories that are as horrifying as anything written by Clive Barker or Stephen King. Here is the collection that first brought Ian McEwan instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. These riveting stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness. These tales disturb but are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying. Don't miss Ian McEwan's new novel, Lessons.

In this "irresistibly readable" (New York Review of Books) tour de force of psychological unease, the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying.In the arid summer heat, four children--Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom--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 children's lives twist into something unrecognizable as the outside begins to bear down on them. Don't miss Ian McEwan's new novel, Lessons.

"Die Mehrzahl dieser Geschichten handelt von Jugendlichen und davon, wie sie von der Welt der Erwachsenen verdorben werden. Die Unschuld der Pubertät wird weniger verloren als zerschmettert ... Nichts für Zimperliche, aber dieser Stil hat eine lakonische Brillanz, die Bände - andeutet. Nichts wird ausgesprochen, alles wird angetippt."