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Item Details
Title:
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THE INNOCENT
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By: |
Ian McEwan |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£6.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0330296345 |
ISBN 13: |
9780330296342 |
Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
12 April, 1991 |
Series: |
Picador Books |
Pages: |
256 |
Language: |
English, Spanish |
Description: |
Ian McEwan won the Somerset Maugham award for "First Love, Last Rights", and was shortlisted for the Booker prize for "The Comfort of Strangers". This novel is set in post-war Berlin, and is a story of espionage and the secrets of the heart. |
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. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Picador |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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