The Innocent (Picador Books)

The Innocent (Picador Books)

by IanMcEwan (Author)

Synopsis

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life -- and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening -- a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 246
Edition: New
Publisher: Picador
Published: 12 Apr 1991

ISBN 10: 0330296345
ISBN 13: 9780330296342

Media Reviews
A topical and brutal tour de force that somehow ascends from horror to a promise of goodness and grace. Michael Ondaatje
Pure literary pleasure . . . . it's McEwan's fascination with the inner sources of cruelty and conquest that gives The Innocent its frightening vitality. LA Weekly
Deft, taut fiction. . . . Many English writers have been compared to Evelyn Waugh, often wrongly, but this book can stand with the master's best. TIME
Never less than wholly entertaining. The Wall Street Journal
Powerful and disturbing . . . a tour de force. The New York Times
Impeccably constructed. . . . Though its plot rivals any thriller in narrative tension, this novel is also a character study--of a young man coming of age in bizarre circumstances. Publishers Weekly
Author Bio
IAN MCEWAN is the bestselling author of 14 books, including the novels The Children Act; Sweet Tooth ; Solar ; On Chesil Beach ; Saturday ; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets. He lives in England.