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The Cement Garden is a 1978 novel by Ian McEwan. It was adapted into a 1993 film of the same name by Andrew Birkin , starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Andrew Robertson . [2] The Cement Garden has had a positive reception since its original publication.
The Comfort of Strangers is a 1981 novel by British writer Ian McEwan. It is his second novel, and is set in an unnamed city (though the detailed description strongly suggests Venice ). Harold Pinter adapted it as a screenplay for a film directed by Paul Schrader in 1990 ( The Comfort of Strangers ), which starred Rupert Everett, Christopher ...
Ian Russell McEwan CH CBE FRSA FRSL (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture ". [1] McEwan began his career writing sparse ...
The Cement Garden. (film) The Cement Garden is a 1993 British drama film written and directed by Andrew Birkin. [3] It is based on the 1978 novel of the same name written by Ian McEwan. [3] It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival, where Birkin won the Silver Bear for Best Director. [4]
The global pandemic made sure of that, and the result is his 17th novel, Lessons (Knopf), which chronicles a man’s lifetime spanning historical events including the Berlin Wall and Brexit ...
Atonement is a 2001 British metafictional novel written by Ian McEwan.Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing.
The story, set in the 1960s, is a comedy drama about a young Hong Kong Chinese couple who emigrate to England and start a family. Initially Chen works long hours in a Chinese restaurant while his wife Lily looks after their baby, dreaming of the day when they can open their own business. When Chen becomes indebted to Triads through gambling he ...
On Chesil Beach is a 2007 novella by the British writer Ian McEwan.It was selected for the 2007 Booker Prize shortlist.. The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Jonathan Yardley placed On Chesil Beach on his top ten for 2007, praising McEwan's writing and saying that "even when he's in a minor mode, as he is here, he is nothing short of amazing".