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Black Dogs : A Novel

by Ian McEwan
$11.57
Black Dogs : A Novel - Thryft
Black Dogs : A Novel - Thryft

Love, loss, and the fall of Europe.

This book is a great read for those who enjoy literary fiction that explores complex relationships and historical events. McEwan's ability to weave together personal and political narratives is stunning, and the book's exploration of the lingering effects of trauma is particularly poignant. If you enjoy introspective, character-driven stories that tackle weighty themes, this is a book for you.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (1992)
  • Premio Grinzane Cavour Nominee for Narrativa Straniera (1992)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Black Dogs : A Novel

by Ian McEwan
$11.57
ISBN: 9780385494328
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $25.30
Authors: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Anchor
Date of Publication: 1998-12-29
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: War, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.45
(rated by 12542 readers)

Description

Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, "Black Dogs" is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and June cannot reconcile, Jeremy undertakes writing June's memoirs, only to be led back again and again to one terrifying encounter forty years earlier - a moment that, for June, was as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy's own time. In a finely crafted, compelling examination of evil and grace, Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civilisation's darkest moods - its black dogs - with the tensions that both create love and destroy it.
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*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

 

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Love, loss, and the fall of Europe.

This book is a great read for those who enjoy literary fiction that explores complex relationships and historical events. McEwan's ability to weave together personal and political narratives is stunning, and the book's exploration of the lingering effects of trauma is particularly poignant. If you enjoy introspective, character-driven stories that tackle weighty themes, this is a book for you.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (1992)
  • Premio Grinzane Cavour Nominee for Narrativa Straniera (1992)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.