In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World. In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World.

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 editor of the newspaper The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits, and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life. A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is "as sheerly enjoyable a book as one is likely to pick up this year" (The Washington Post Book World).

The first collection of short stories -- winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. 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.

From the inexhaustible imagination of Ian McEwan--a master of contemporary fiction and author of the Booker Prize-winning national bestseller Amsterdam --an enchanting work of fiction that appeals equally to children and adults. First published in England as a children's book, The Daydreamer marks a delightful foray by one of our greatest novelists into a new fictional domain. In these seven exquisitely interlinked episodes, the grown-up protagonist Peter Fortune reveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses, and adventures of his childhood. Living somewhere between dream and reality, Peter experiences fantastical transformations: he swaps bodies with the wise old family cat; exchanges existences with a cranky infant; encounters a very bad doll who has come to life and is out for revenge; and rummages through a kitchen drawer filled with useless objects to discover some not-so-useless cream that actually makes people vanish. Finally, he wakes up as an eleven-year-old inside a grown-up body and embarks on the truly fantastic adventure of falling in love. Moving, dreamlike, and extraordinary, The Daydreamer marks yet another imaginative departure for Ian McEwan, and one that adds new breadth to his body of work.

Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. 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. At once chilling and beguiling, and written in prose of lacerating beauty, In Between the Sheets is a tour de force by one of England's most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease.

Ian McEwan 07年的新书On Chesil Beach，使他再度入围英国布克奖。这本只有二百页的小书，就规模而言，更似novella（中篇小说），McEwan 把语言的细腻玩出了一种喜剧的幽默，别具谐趣。 英国诗人Philip Larkin’s Annus Mirabilis开头第一段这么写道： Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles’ first LP. On Chesil Beach的故事便是发生在性解禁的前一年1962年的七月，两个二十二岁的年轻人，天资不凡的小提琴手Florence与踌躇满志的历史系学生Edward，小说开门见山第一句话描写他们，“青春、受过良好的教育、都还是处子之身”，新婚之夜，两人在Chesil海滨酒店的蜜月套房，发生了一场不可思议的性战。Edward对初夜的兴奋期待，紧张的害怕自己表现不好，来得太快，相反，同样紧张不安的Florence，明知这样一种身体关系是夫妻间不可避免的正常之事，却仍无法克服对此的厌恶与排斥，灵与肉的交战，纠缠着Florence挣扎的内心，也像一块不祥的乌云，笼罩着她与Edward甜蜜浪漫的爱情。 Florence与Edward的爱情，将如何化为精神与肉体的（被迫）结合，McEwan如一位希区柯克式的悬念大师，吊足读者的胃口。小说前四分之三的笔墨集中在新婚初夜的几个小时里，对Florence和Edwarn说不出口的心理交战、及所表现出的身体悸动，描画细致得好像电影的慢动作镜头，不厌其烦中越见张力，而在最后不到四分之一的结尾，却以几年、十年的大跨度，流水般的概述Edward此后的一生，这般两极化的剪辑速度，读完全书，有一种预感，这个小说其实很适合改编成电影。