Resultados para "Ian McEwan" en Narrativa literaria

El arranque de la novela no dejará indiferente a ningún lector, porque es una reelaboración del famosísimo inicio de "La metamorfosis" de Kafka. Solo que aquí se invierten los términos y nos encontramos con una cucaracha que un buen día, al despertarse, descubre que se ha convertido en un enorme ser humano, concretamente en el primer ministro del Reino Unido, de nombre Jim Sams. Y resulta no ser la única cucaracha transformada en político que se mueve por las altas esferas.

Tienen poco más de veinte años, y se conocieron en una manifestación contra las armas nucleares. Florence es una chica de clase media alta, su padre es un exitoso hombre de negocios y su madre una activa profeso­ra universitaria, y viven en una casa donde se comen quesos franceses y yogur. Edward, en cambio, pertenece a una familia que apenas se sos­tiene en la zona baja de la clase media; su padre es maestro, y su madre, tras un imprevisible accidente, vive desde hace años en una nebulosa.

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...

Per Serena Frome, giovane, bionda e bellissima, l'avventura sta tutta nei romanzi che divora uno dopo l'altro. Ma quando l'agenzia d'intelligence britannica MI5 la ingaggia come spia al servizio della guerra fredda, per lei il rischio e la passione si trasferiscono dalla carta alla vita. "Miele" è il nome in codice dell¿operazione cui deve prendere parte, Tom Haley quello del romanziere che ha il compito di adescare. Dovrà avvicinarlo, coprirlo di quattrini e segretamente assoldarlo alla causa dell'Occidente. Dovrà batterlo sul suo stesso terreno, quello della finzione.

Brought to you by Penguin. The mesmerising new novel from Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement. The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is...

Brought to you by Penguin. On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a 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 as Britain's most...

The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis,a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From...

Noul roman al lui Ian McEwan, Coajă de nucă, lansat simultan în Marea Britanie și SUA la începutul lunii septembrie 2016, este o poveste clasică despre crimă și trădare, relatată din perspectiva unui narator cu o viziune și o voce unice în literatura ultimilor ani –...

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her...

Figlio del capitano Robert Baines, autoritario veterano della Seconda guerra mondiale ora di stanza in Nord Africa, e di sua moglie Rosalind, Roland fatica a capire perché a soli undici anni gli tocchi lasciare le pietre calde e la pazza libertà di Libia, e il fianco tiepido di sua madre, per affrontare un'istruzione rigorosa e solitaria nella fredda Inghilterra.

Berlino, inverno 1955: il tempo della guerra fredda, il tempo delle spie. Nelle viscere della città devastata si lavora all'«Operazione Oro», lo scavo di un tunnel al confine con la zona russa, allo scopo di immettersi sulle frequenze telefoniche sovietiche e intercettarne i messaggi operativi: un progetto ardito e pericoloso a cui collaborano la Cia e l'M16, i due servizi segreti alleati e al tempo stesso rivali.

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his...

Brought to you by Penguin. Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his...

Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he...

Ian McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty audiobook of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed...

Através de um narrador inusitado, um dos maiores ficcionistas da atualidade cria uma história de intriga e mistério. O narrador deste livro é nada menos do que um feto. Enclausurado na barriga da mãe, ele escuta os planos da progenitora para, em conluio com seu amante – que é também tio do bebê –, assassinar o marido.

Roland Baines ist noch ein Kind, als er 1959 im Internat der Person begegnet, die sein Leben aus der Bahn werfen wird: der Klavierlehrerin Miriam Cornell. Roland ist junger Vater, als seine deutsche Frau Alissa ihn und das vier Monate alte Baby verlässt. Es ist das Jahr 1986. Während die Welt sich wegen Tschernobyl sorgt, beginnt Roland, nach Antworten zu suchen, zu seiner Herkunft, seinem rastlosen Leben und all dem, was Alissa von ihm fortgetrieben hat.

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'I've come about the bodies. I know who they are.' Just before D-Day in 1944, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, an elderly woman walks into a police station. She has information, she says, about human remains recently discovered nearby. The bodies could have stayed buried for ever - like the...

Brought to you by Penguin. **WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2019** Discover the brilliant new short story collection from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of All That Man Is Twelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in turmoil, and each in some way...