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Diese Geschichte spielt in einer alternativen Version des Vereinigten Königreichs in den 1980er-Jahren: Alan Turing lebt und forscht noch, Großbritannien hat den Falkland-Krieg verloren und die Digitalisierung ist weit fortgeschritten.
Charlie, ein junger Mann mit vielen Interessen, aber wenig Ambitionen, investiert seine Erbschaft in eine technische Spielerei: er kauft einen der ersten 24 vollständig künstlichen Menschen: Adam. Diesen zu erziehen und auszubilden wird sein neues Projekt, das er zusammen mit seiner attraktiven Nachbarin Miranda angehen will. Idealerweise wird daraus...

The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple's wedding night.

It is 1962, and Florence and Edward are celebrating their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation of their marital duties become overwhelming. Unbeknownst to them both, the decisions they make this night will resonate throughout their lives. With exquisite prose, Ian McEwan creates in On...

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...

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...

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.