《阿姆斯特丹》是麦克尤恩1998年布克奖夺冠作品，备受各界好评。在凄冷二月的一场葬礼上，两个男人相遇了——克利夫是有名的作曲家，弗农是一家全国性大报的主编，而死去的莫莉则是他们先后曾经用过的女人。两人对对莫莉死前遭受的痛苦深感痛惜，于是他们达成协议：如果对方不能有尊严地活下去时，对方可以随时结束他的生命。紧接着，克利夫和弗农几乎同时陷入到一场意外的危机，而更多意料之外的谣言与传闻令他们不知所措、反目为仇，甚至想以同样的方式至对方于死地，以泄心头之恨。阿姆斯特丹将上演一部怎样的好戏？邪恶、奸诈、欺骗、背叛、罪孽、谋杀……人性的种种在此淋漓尽致地展开。

‘McEwan's exploration of his characters' lives and secret emotions is a virtuoso display of fictional subtlety and intelligence’ OBERVER ‘A page-turner, with a plot so engrossing that it seems reckless to pick the book up in the evening if you plan to get any sleep that night’ A. S. BYATT, LITERARY REVIEW ‘I cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling from the very first page’ BILL BRYSON, SUNDAY TIMES 风景如画的伦敦郊野，五个可以说都是助人为乐的陌生人一道赶去救助一起热气球事故，但或许只不过一瞬间的犹疑、自私，一个大活人就在大家眼前顷刻间殒命。生命的如此脆弱易逝反而点燃了杰德疯狂而执着的爱，并由此导致乔及克拉莉莎的世界完全混乱失序。步入成熟、渐入佳境的麦克尤恩通过对于一场精神危机、一种精神疾患的细致展现，严肃而又深刻地探讨了人类的情绪、情感、意识乃至于人性本身的无限可能以及脆弱无依。

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.

如果你喜歡當代文學，書架上一定要有一本伊恩．麥克尤恩 ◎曼布克文學獎得主 ◎2007年曼布克文學獎決選作品 ◎2007年大英國協傑出文學獎得主 她從未像那刻如此愛他，如此絕望，只要他的一絲聲音就能成為她的救贖，她就可以轉過身。但是他在夏日薄暮中冷冷站著，沉默不語，自以為是，看著她沿著海岸疾行，辛苦跋涉的腳步聲逐漸被細碎拍擊海岸的浪花聲淹沒，直到她變成一個遙遠模糊的針點…… 即使是伊恩．麥克尤恩最爛的小說，英國人也充滿期待。 －－《紐約時報書評》 書中那根陰毛，可說是小說史上最具表達力的陰毛。 －－《紐約時報》 一本關於糟糕性愛的完美小說。 －－《愛爾蘭時報》 從《贖罪》到《星期六》，這是麥克尤恩的成熟風格，光彩文雅，迥異於他早年的驚悚作風。 －－《衛報》 一場躊躇的求愛之舞。 －－《泰晤士報》

‘Brilliant ... [a] meditation on ... the intoxications of violence and the redemptive power of love’ THE NEW YORKER ‘Masterful and moving ... a tender account of persistent but failed love, a bittersweet evocation of the solitudes that vex, enliven, and ultimately define marriage. It is, above all, a study of the fragile nobility of the human spirit in the face of the irrational, the terrible, and the miraculous’ WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD 你可知道丘吉尔将与自己形影不离的忧郁症唤作“黑犬”？他曾坦言“我有一条陪伴我一生的黑犬”。胸中的阴郁、内心的折磨就像伺机发起进攻的黑狗一样,一有机会就咬住心口不放。而“恐怖伊恩”这一次狠狠揭开的却是整个时代的沮丧，唤起的是文明的心魔，揪住了人性的缺口——“如果一条狗代表了个人的抑郁，那么两条狗就是一种文化的抑郁，对文明而言，这是最为可怕的心态”。出没在长篇小说《黑犬》中的凶狠而神秘的动物，比黑夜还要黑，目露红光，像正在燃烧的煤块，觊觎着奄奄一息的欧洲文明的残骸，吞噬着改革与信仰的道德底限，叼住了文明的死穴，企图颠倒善与恶的本质——典型的麦氏黑色，在幽灵黑犬作祟的舞台，暴力，真爱，邪恶，救赎，演绎了一则有关我们时代的惊悚寓言。