Ian McEwan

2014: Den anerkjente poeten Francis Blundy leser et nytt dikt, «En krans for Vivien», dedikert til sin kone under en middag med venner. Diktet forsvinner sporløst, og innholdet i det blir gjenstand for spekulasjon i generasjoner. 2119: I et fremtidig Storbritannia, delvis oversvømt etter klimaendringer og en kjernefysisk katastrofe, forsøker professor Thomas Metcalfe å rekonstruere diktets opprinnelse. Han er besatt av Blundy og hans kone, og forskningen hans avdekker en historie om kjærlighet, svik og et brutalt drap som snur alt han trodde han visste, på hodet. Ian McEwans nyeste roman er en litterær detektivhistorie, en kjærlighetshistorie og en refleksjon over hva vi egentlig kan vite – om fortiden, hverandre og oss selv. Romanen lar fortid, nåtid og fremtid samtale med hverandre, og stiller spørsmål ved hvordan vi husker og blir husket.

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining island archipelagos, pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well. What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.

From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife's birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, 'A Corona for Vivien'. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found, and which remains an enduring mystery. 2119: Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the water-logged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, 'A Corona for Vivian'. How wild and full of risk their lives were, thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem's discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well. What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.

Ot avtora sovremennoj britanskoj prozy, znamenitogo svoimi romanami "Amsterdam", "Iskuplenie", "Nevynosimaja ljubov" i mnogikh drugikh, laureata Bukerovskoj premii Jena Makjuena. Intellektualnaja proza vo vsekh smyslakh. Na fone politicheskoj situatsii v Anglii, kogda prishlo vremja Margaret Tetcher pokidat post premer ministra, a v nauke Alan Tjuring sdelal proryv v oblasti sozdanija iskusstvennogo intellekta, razvivaetsja istorija glavnykh geroev. Zabludshij neudachnik Charli vljubljaetsja v Mirandu - devushku, v proshlom kotoroj bolshaja tajna. Kogda Charli vdrug razzhivaetsja dengami, on pervym delom pokupaet Adama - odnogo iz pervykh androidov. Vmeste s Mirandoj oni sozdajut Adamu lichnost. Novoe suschestvo - pochti idealnyj chelovek. I vskore troitsa obrazuet ljubovnyj treugolnik. Avtor zadaet v romane samye vazhnye voprosy: chto delaet nas ljudmi? Chto opredeljaet nashi postupki i vnutrennij mir? Mozhet li mashina ponjat chelovecheskoe serdtse? Mashiny kak Adam - eto nashe nedalekoe buduschee. Gotovy li my vosprinimat neodushevlennuju mashinu kak odushevlennoe sozdanie. Naskolko sovershenny androidy, i naskolko ne sovershenny my, poroj ne ponimajuschie samikh sebja. "Listva opadaet. Vesnoj my vozrodimsja, No, uvy, ne ty".

Ien Makjuen - odin iz avtorov "pravjaschego triumvirata" sovremennoj britanskoj prozy. Laureat Bukerovskoj premii. Mirovuju izvestnost avtoru prines roman "Iskuplenie". Mozhno li razdeljat siamskikh bliznetsov, znaja, chto odin iz nikh umret? S kem stoit ostavit pri razvode roditelej devochek iz ortodoksalnoj obschiny: s materju, kotoraja khochet narushit ustoi i dat im obrazovanie, ili s ottsom, schitajuschim, chto devochkam nezachem uchitsja? Sudja Fiona Mej pochti vsju svoju zhizn reshaet eti slozhnye voprosy. I vot novoe slushanie. Adamu Genri neobkhodimo perelivanie krovi - inache on umret. Malchik i ego roditeli protiv, ved oni svideteli Iegovy, a eta protsedura protivorechit ikh vere. Fiona dolzhna dejstvovat v interesakh Adama i uvazhat ego religioznye vzgljady. Ona vyneset edinstvenno pravilnoe, s ee tochki zrenija, reshenie. Eto navsegda izmenit ee zhizn i zhizn Adama.

Ien Makjuen - sovremennyj klassik britanskoj literatury, oznamenovannyj mnozhestvom prestizhnykh premij, sredi kotorykh Buker i Premija Somerseta Moema. Po romanam Makjuena snjato 8 kinokartin, kotorye do sikh por na slukhu. Roman "Ditja vo vremeni" pogruzhaet v semejnuju istoriju kak v omut, iz kotorogo chitatel vrjad li budet sposoben vybratsja srazu. Trekhletnjaja doch detskogo pisatelja Stivena Ljuisa Kejt ischezaet, kogda oni s ottsom nakhodilis v supermarkete. Ee mestonakhozhdenie neizvestno. Sluchivsheesja serezno vlijaet na samosoznanie Stivena i na ego otnoshenija s zhenoj. Tjaguchee povestvovanie, rastjagivajuschee i razryvajuschee vremennuju strukturu, priotkryvaet novye detali i pochti zabytye chuvstva geroev, aktsentiruet na sposobnosti teksta vozvraschat bylye dni i tem samym sozdavat podobie vechnosti, kotoraja menjaetsja pod natiskom razuma. Literatura vysokogo klassa, sposobnaja objasnit cheloveku sut ego sobstvennoj dushi, pribegaja k svojstvam pamjati.

Ien Makjuen - odin iz avtorov "pravjaschego triumvirata" sovremennoj britanskoj prozy (narjadu s Dzhulianom Barnsom i Martinom Emisom). Ego "Amsterdam" poluchil Bukerovskuju premiju. Russkij perevod romana stal intellektualnym bestsellerom, a rabota Viktora Golysheva byla otmechena rossijskoj premiej "Malyj Buker", v pervyj i edinstvennyj raz prisuzhdennoj imenno za perevod. Dvoe druzej - preuspevajuschij glavnyj redaktor populjarnoj ezhednevnoj gazety i znamenityj kompozitor, rabotajuschij nad "Simfoniej tysjacheletija", - zakljuchajut soglashenie ob evtanazii: esli odin iz nikh vpadet v sostojanie bespamjatstva i perestanet sebja kontrolirovat, to drugoj objazuetsja ego ubit...

Ien Makjuen - odin iz avtorov "pravjaschego triumvirata" sovremennoj britanskoj prozy (narjadu s Dzhulianom Barnsom i Martinom Emisom), laureat Bukerovskoj premii za roman "Amsterdam"." Iskuplenie" - eto porazitelnaja v svoej iskrennosti "khronika utrachennogo vremeni", kotoruju vedet devochka-podrostok, na svoj prichudlivyj i po-detski zhestokij lad pereotsenivaja i pereosmyslivaja sobytija "vzrosloj" zhizni. Stav svidetelem iznasilovanija, ona traktuet ego po-svoemu i privodit v dejstvie tsepochku rokovykh sobytij, kotoraja "auknetsja" samym neozhidannym obrazom cherez mnogo-mnogo let... V 2007 godu vyshla odnoimennaja ekranizatsija romana (rezh. Dzho Rajt, v glavnyj roljakh Kira Najtli i Dzhejms MakEvoj). Film byl predstavlen na Venetsianskom kinofestivale, zavoeval dve premii "Zolotoj globus" i odnu iz semi nominatsij na "Oskar".

Ot avtora sovremennoj britanskoj prozy, znamenitogo svoimi romanami "Amsterdam", "Iskuplenie", "Nevynosimaja ljubov" i mnogikh drugikh, laureata Bukerovskoj premii Jena Makjuena. Intellektualnaja proza vo vsekh smyslakh. Na fone politicheskoj situatsii v Anglii, kogda prishlo vremja Margaret Tetcher pokidat post premer-ministra, a v nauke Alan Tjuring sdelal proryv v oblasti sozdanija iskusstvennogo intellekta, razvivaetsja istorija glavnykh geroev. Zabludshij neudachnik Charli vljubljaetsja v Mirandu - devushku, v proshlom kotoroj bolshaja tajna. Kogda Charli vdrug razzhivaetsja dengami, on pervym delom pokupaet Adama - odnogo iz pervykh androidov. Vmeste s Mirandoj oni sozdajut Adamu lichnost. Novoe suschestvo - pochti idealnyj chelovek. I vskore troitsa obrazuet ljubovnyj treugolnik. Avtor zadaet v romane samye vazhnye voprosy: chto delaet nas ljudmi? chto opredeljaet nashi postupki i vnutrennij mir? mozhet li mashina ponjat chelovecheskoe serdtse? Mashiny kak Adam - eto nashe nedalekoe buduschee. Gotovy li my vosprinimat neodushevlennuju mashinu kak odushevlennoe sozdanie. Naskolko sovershenny androidy i naskolko nesovershenny my, poroj ne ponimajuschie samikh sebja. "Listva opadaet. Vesnoj my vozrodimsja, No, uvy, ne ty".

Ien Makjuen - odin iz avtorov "pravjaschego triumvirata" sovremennoj britanskoj prozy (narjadu s Dzhulianom Barnsom i Martinom Emisom), laureat Bukerovskoj premii za roman "Amsterdam"." Iskuplenie" - eto porazitelnaja v svoej iskrennosti "khronika utrachennogo vremeni", kotoruju vedet devochka-podrostok, na svoj prichudlivyj i po-detski zhestokij lad pereotsenivaja i pereosmyslivaja sobytija "vzrosloj" zhizni. Stav svidetelem iznasilovanija, ona traktuet ego po-svoemu i privodit v dejstvie tsepochku rokovykh sobytij, kotoraja "auknetsja" samym neozhidannym obrazom cherez mnogo-mnogo let... V 2007 godu vyshla odnoimennaja ekranizatsija romana (rezh. Dzho Rajt, v glavnyj roljakh Kira Najtli i Dzhejms MakEvoj). Film byl predstavlen na Venetsianskom kinofestivale, zavoeval dve premii "Zolotoj globus" i odnu iz semi nominatsij na "Oskar".

Ien Makjuen - odin iz avtorov "pravjaschego triumvirata" sovremennoj britanskoj prozy. Laureat Bukerovskoj premii. Mirovuju izvestnost avtoru prines roman "Iskuplenie", po motivam kotorogo byl snjat odnoimennyj film s Kiroj Najtli i Dzhejmsom Makevoj v glavnykh roljakh. Ekranizatsija poluchila "Oskar" i "Zolotoj globus".13-letnjaja Brajoni proschaetsja s detstvom. Ee rasskazy s naivnymi sjuzhetami ukhodjat v proshloe. Ikh mesto zajmet istorija iz mira vzroslykh. Stsena No1, podsmotrennaja iz okna: starshaja sestra razdevaetsja pered sosedom Robbi i nyrjaet v fontan. Zloveschaja stsena No2: Robbi szhimaet sestru v temnom uglu biblioteki. Stsena No3, prervannaja neozhidannym pojavleniem: iznasilovanie kuziny. Brajoni pogloschena etoj istoriej. Istoriej, kotoruju ona ponjala nepravilno i iz-za kotoroj nachinajut rushitsja dve zhizni. U junoj pisatelnitsy budet tolko odin shans, chtoby vse ispravit.

In Jack and Santa's Frosty Fallout, readers are taken on a thrilling holiday adventure set in the magical North Pole. With only five days left until Christmas, Santa is in a panic: the sleigh is broken, the naughty and nice list is incomplete, and the satellite tracker is outdated. To make matters worse, Jack Frost arrives, stirring up trouble and causing chaos just when Santa needs everything to run smoothly. Meanwhile, Sophie and her brother Tom are whisked away on a magical sleigh ride that leads them to the North Pole, where they inadvertently find themselves in the middle of a Christmas crisis. They must confront Jack Frost and help save Christmas before it's too late. This fast-paced, heartwarming story captures the magic of the holiday season while exploring themes of teamwork, forgiveness, and the spirit of Christmas. Jack Frost's icy mischief and the children's brave journey create an exciting narrative filled with whimsical moments and magical challenges. As the characters come together to restore peace, readers are reminded of the power of hope, friendship, and believing in the impossible.

"Uprazhnenija" - emotsionalnaja psikhologicheskaja drama dlja nespeshnogo chtenija s elementami biografii samogo avtora. V seredine XX veka, kogda mir esche podschityvaet tsenu Vtoroj mirovoj, zhizn odinnadtsatiletnego Rolanda Bejnsa perevorachivaetsja s nog na golovu. Otets-voennyj uvozit ego iz Livii i opredeljaet v anglijskuju shkolu-internat, gde ego ujazvimost privlekaet moloduju uchitelnitsu fortepiano, Miriam Kornell. Irratsionalnaja i tragichnaja pervaja ljubov krasnoj nitju projdet cherez vsju zhizn malchika. Mnogo pozzhe, kogda zhena Rolanda ischeznet, ostaviv ego odnogo s malenkim synom, on budet iskat otvety i v svoej junosti, i v istorii svoej semi. Ien Makjuen opisyvaet khroniku povorotnykh sobytij v istorii Evropy s XX do XXI veka cherez prizmu zhizni Rolanda, kharakternogo predstavitelja svoego pokolenija.