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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...

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...

Es ist das Jahr 1935, und die 13-jährige Briony Tallis hat ein Theaterstück für ihren älteren Bruder und ihre jungen Cousins geschrieben, die zu Besuch auf dem großen englischen Landsitz der Tallis sind. Doch das Stück wird erst vierundsechzig Jahre später aufgeführt.

Dazwischen liegen ein Gewaltverbrechen, das von einem unbekannten Verbrecher begangen wird, eine Verhaftung, die Leben verändert - und zerstört -, ein höllischer Weltkrieg und eine lebenslange Buße für die junge Dramatikerin, die zur Autorin wurde. Und dies alles in Geschichten innerhalb von Geschichten in...

The fortieth anniversary edition of McEwan's first published work, beautifully re-jacketed for a new generation of fans.
Now with an Afterword from the author.
Forty years on from when they were first published, these stories show McEwan's dazzling early talent. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these 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.

As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.