Ian McEwan
1) Lessons
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When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Two thousand miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with...
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"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month--old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers."...
4) Sweet tooth
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Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him.
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Michael Beard is a Nobel prize winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. While he coasts along in his professional life, Michael's personal life is another matter entirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of his infidelities....
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Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
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333 pages ; 22 cm
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"Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie...
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Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
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221 pages ; 22 cm
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"Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing...
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1987
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263 p. ; 22 cm.
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The abduction of his only child destroys Stephen Lewis' marriage and painfully forces him to look back on his own childhood. Explores the nature of time and our perception of it, in a story about the loss of a child and the importance of childhood.
12) The cockroach
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Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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99 pages ; 21 cm
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"That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain--and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way; not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules...
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2003
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5 CDs (5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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When their parents die, 14-year-old Jack and his three siblings are left alone in the family house. They are free to live however they choose, but without parental guidance, they descend into a nightmarish world of depravity. Facing an uncertain future, they preserve a terrible secret that could shatter their existence.
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¿Son compatibles la libertad estética y el compromiso político? McEwan reflexiona a partir de Orwell y Camus.
En 1940 George Orwell publicó el ensayo «En el vientre de la ballena», en el que se pregunta cómo pueden conjugar los escritores la integridad estética y el compromiso político. ¿Son compatibles? ¿Cuál debe prevalecer por encima del otro? ¿Tiene sentido exigirle a un creador la denuncia de las injusticias del mundo? Años después,...
15) Machines like me
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Recorded Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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10 CDs (11 hrs. 15 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie...
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Criterion collection volume 1041
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
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While working on their relationship on vacation in Venice, Colin and Mary fall prey to the seduction of another couple with sinister intentions.
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A lyrical and heart-breaking exploration of love, loss, and the power of things unseen, based on the award-winning novel by Ian McEwan and adapted by Stephen Butchard. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance.
19) On Chesil Beach
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Based on Ian McEwan's novel. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
20) Atonement
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...