Ian McEwan Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Im Jahr 2119: Die Welt ist überschwemmt, Europa eine Insellandschaft, Freiheit und Reichtum unserer Gegenwart – ein ferner Traum. Der Literaturwissenschaftler Thomas Metcalfe sucht ein verschollenes Gedicht von Weltrang. Der Dichter Francis Blundy hat es 2014 seiner Frau Vivien gewidmet und nur ein einziges Mal vorgetragen. In all den Spuren, die das berühmte Paar hinterlassen hat, stößt Thomas auf eine geheime Liebe, aber auch auf ein Verbrechen. Ian McEwan entwirft meisterhaft eine zukünftige Welt, in der nicht alles verloren ist.

Ian McEwan betrachtet die Geschichte der Wissenschaft als faszinierende Saga, die intellektuellen Mut und Inspiration vereint. In brillanten Essays untersucht er das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Literatur sowie die Verbindung zu unserer menschlichen Natur, illustriert durch Figuren wie Darwin, Einstein und Turing.

Anappara creates an endearing and highly engaging narrator to navigate us through the dark underbelly of modern India' Observer We children are not just stories. We live. Come and see. Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a boy at school goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from episodes of Police Patrol to find him. With Pari and Faiz by his side, Jai ventures into some of the most dangerous parts of the sprawling Indian city; the bazaar at night, and even the railway station at the end of the Purple Line. But kids continue to vanish, and the trio must confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force and soul-snatching djinns in order to uncover the truth.

VINTAGE GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

The new novel from the master storyteller is his best in years and brilliantly McEwan, a moving love story and a mystery, yet, for all its gripping plotline one of the most ethically and morally layered novels written for our times. Set in 1980s London, the story revolves around Charlie: young and reckless, and in love with his upstairs neighbour, the enchanting Miranda whose hidden, murky past hangs between them. He has spent his inheritance on the acquisition of one of twenty-four highly developed robotic humans--named Adam or Eve--developed by Alan Turing after his success on the Enigma codebreaking machine, central to the Allies WWII victory. As London is consumed by the huge protests over England and Argentina's Falklands War and Margaret Thatcher's jingoistic ambitions, Charlie courts Miranda, and his Adam finds himself central to their affair. Great novelist that he is, McEwan pulls us into the question of what it means to love, what it means to be human in our fast-changing times, and how precarious a construct is the world we live in and think we know.