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.

◎獲選為2005年「紐約時報」十大好書 ◎2006年獲選英國布萊克紀念獎(Jame's Tait Black) ◎入圍2005年布克獎 ◎英國重量級作家安妮塔．布魯克納（Anita Brookner）讚此書為伊恩．麥克伊旺寫得最好的小說。 二○○三年二月十五日，星期六，平凡得一如時間之流中的每一天。 但為外科醫師亨利．貝羅安揭開這天序幕的，卻是遠方天空的空難事件。生活優渥、受人景仰的貝羅安，擁有摯愛的妻子與成就出眾的一雙兒女，但對他而言，生命仍有太多未知數。空難、街上的反戰人潮、車禍意外等，隨著貝羅安一天活動的開展，呈現出九一一恐怖事件對於當代社會的餘波蕩漾，對各階層的影響與改變。 伊恩．麥克伊旺以意識流的文學手法，配合自信優雅的文字與非凡卓越的觀點，思緒的無盡奔流，細密緊致地傳達出現代人對於安全、暴力、生命的恐懼與不確定。生命可以在一瞬間改變，有可能走向極美之境，也可能落入窘困之井，甚至進入恐懼慌亂的森林。而就在意識流動的瞬間，命運或許就會從此改變…… 「情節不時走向緊張懸疑的氣氛，麥克伊旺巧妙的佈局，將我們如何審視觀察自我，以及日常生活中最平實的部分又是如何像滾雪球般，幻化成複雜的道德困境。」 ——《出版人週刊》 「《SATURDAY》探討了社會各階層的命運、意志、生命的脆弱、真相與恐懼。麥克伊旺在英國文壇素來以兼具『嚴肅文學性』與『貼近類型小說』的特色見長，讓這本複雜精細、令人神魂顛倒的小說披上了『寧靜中的懸疑』外衣，並深入挖掘黑暗的真實面。」 ——《紐約時報書評》 「令人驚嘆的有力作品……麥克伊旺向我們展現了今日生活的種種面貌……名列至今以九一一事件為主題的小說中，最有力的幾本。」 ——《紐約時報》 「一流作品……《星期六》嚴肅地探討了不一樣的恐怖，在最受保護的地方，通常也環繞著種種可能的險惡危機。」 ——《時代雜誌》 「在《SATURDAY》中，麥克伊旺意欲挑起讀者的思考脈動，並一如往常地聰敏，討論我們在暴力充斥的世界裡，是否願意、又能否創造出安身之所。」 ——《書訊》 「麥克伊旺以全然頂尖的表現形式寫作。」 ——《每日郵報》 「《SATURDAY》讓麥克伊旺發現將天賦發揮得淋漓盡致的寫作風格。」 ——卡洛琳．摩爾（Caroline Moore），《週日電訊報》 「複雜、懸疑……《SATURDAY》再次鞏固了麥克伊旺在同世代作家中數一數二的地位。」 ——《週日泰晤士報》 「這是麥克伊旺創作顛峰的作品……比《贖罪》更加奔放大膽。」 ——《巴爾的摩太陽報》 「極其迷人……全書充滿智慧與高超技巧，伊恩．麥克伊旺的《SATURDAY》幾乎無懈可擊。」 ——《費城詢問報》 「這本非凡的作品並非政治小說，而是透過意識思考的過程，讓政治議題發亮。」 ——《The Nation》期刊 「對我們生活的世界中所存在的安逸與恐懼，出色捕捉箇中意涵的絕佳小說。」 ——《Vogue》 「才華洋溢的作品……充滿閱讀樂趣。」 ——《歐普拉雜誌》 「這是足以作為模範且引人入勝的美妙小說，無疑也是麥克伊旺最好的作品。」 ——安妮塔．布魯克納（Anita Brookner）／作家 「……《SATURDAY》是小說藝術的模範……」 ——安德魯．馬丁（Andrew Martin）／作家

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.

The year is 1962. Florence, the daughter of a successful businessman and an aloof Oxford academic, is a talented violinist. She dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, the earnest young history student she met by chance and who unexpectedly wooed her and won her heart. Edward grew up in the country on the outskirts of Oxford where his father, the headmaster of the local school, struggled to keep the household together and his mother, brain-damaged from an accident, drifted in a world of her own. Edward’s native intelligence, coupled with a longing to experience the excitement and intellectual fervour of the city, had taken him to University College in London. Falling in love with the accomplished, shy and sensitive Florence – and having his affections returned with equal intensity – has utterly changed his life. Their marriage, they believe, will bring them happiness, the confidence and the freedom to fulfill their true destinies. The glowing promise of the future, however, cannot totally mask their worries about the wedding night. Edward, who has had little experience with women, frets about his sexual prowess. Florence’s anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by conflicting emotions and a fear of the moment she will surrender herself. From the precise and intimate depiction of two young lovers eager to rise above the hurts and confusion of the past, to the touching story of how their unexpressed misunderstandings and fears shape the rest of their lives, On Chesil Beach is an extraordinary novel that brilliantly, movingly shows us how the entire course of a life can be changed – by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.