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In Inghilterra, secondo Philip Larkin, "i rapporti sessuali incominciarono nel millenovecentosessantatre", "tra la fine del bando a "Lady Chatterley" e il primo ellepi dei Beatles". La giovane coppia protagonista del nuovo romanzo di lan McEwan patisce invece gli ultimi fuochi di un clima diffuso di repressione sessuale. La prima notte di nozze, e prima esperienza sessuale per entrambi, scocca infatti alla vigilia di quell'"annus mirabilis". Tutto avviene in appena due ore, in un antiquato hotel vicino alla celebre spiaggia di ciottoli di Chesil Beach.

Tienen poco más de veinte años, y se conocieron en una manifestación contra las armas nucleares. Florence es una chica de clase media alta, su padre es un exitoso hombre de negocios y su madre una activa profeso­ra universitaria, y viven en una casa donde se comen quesos franceses y yogur. Edward, en cambio, pertenece a una familia que apenas se sos­tiene en la zona baja de la clase media; su padre es maestro, y su madre, tras un imprevisible accidente, vive desde hace años en una nebulosa.

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author! A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an...

Brought to you by Penguin. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the...

“Sacks is an extraordinarily gifted writer.”—Washington Post Unfolding during an invasion of Gaza, The Lover tells the story of an affair between a young Israeli soldier and a Canadian woman. The emotional realities of ideology and war begin to change the lovers, who undergo a parallel...

In 1943, when Grace and Leo Waterhouse married in Australia, they were part of a young generation ready to sacrifice themselves to win the war, while being confident they would survive. Sixty years on, as Grace recounts what happened to her doomed hero, she can say what she suspected then: that...