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The Innocent

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Author: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9780385494335

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Published on Dec 29, 1998 | 288 Pages

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A member of a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin finds himself in too deep in this “wholly entertaining” work (The Wall Street Journal) from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement.

Twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham’s intelligence work—tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow—offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. His relationship with Maria Eckdorf, an enigmatic and beautiful West Berliner, likewise promises to loosen the bonds of his ordinary life. But the promise turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening—a night when Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he’s willing to shed.

“Never less than wholly entertaining.” —The Wall Street Journal

“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

“So exhaustively suspenseful that it should be devoured at one sitting…. McEwan fuses a spy-novel plot with themes as venerable as the myth of Adam and Eve.” —Newsweek

“Has the spooky, crooked-angled, danger-around-every-corner feeling of a Carol Reid film. It reminded me often of The Third Man and that is no mean feat.” —Jonathan Carroll, The Washington Post Book World

“Powerful and disturbing … a tour de force.” —The New York Times

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Ian McEwan

IAN MCEWAN is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.ianmcewan.com

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