Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of Bernard and June Tremaine’s marriage, as witnessed by their son-in-law, Jeremy, who seeks to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences that seem irreconcilable. In writing June’s memoirs, Jeremy is led back to a moment, that was, for June, as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy’s own time. Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civilization’s darkest moods — its black dogs — with the tensions that both create love and destroy it.
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Review:
"Powerful... Unforgettable" (Sunday Telegraph)
"His best yet, which I should make clear is saying a great deal" (Observer)
"Brilliant...a meditation on the intoxications of violence and the redemptive power of love" (New Yorker)
"Superbly evocative prose... The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities" (New York Times Book Review)
"Compassionate without resorting to sentimentality, clever without ever losing its honesty, an undisguised novel of ideas which is also Ian McEwan's most human work" (Times Literary Supplement)
From the Publisher:
I judge it his best yet, which I should make clear is saying a great deal - Observer
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