A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oprah.com
Trudy has been unfaithful to her husband, John. What's more, she has kicked him out of their marital home, a valuable old London town house, and in his place is his own brother, the profoundly banal Claude. The illicit couple have hatched a scheme to rid themselves of her inconvenient husband forever. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.
As Trudy's unborn son listens, bound within her body, to his mother and his uncle's murderous plans, he gives us a truly new perspective on our world, seen from the confines of his. McEwan's brilliant recasting of Shakespeare lends new weight to the age-old question of Hamlet's hesitation, and is a tour de force of storytelling.
MCEWAN IAN
Ian Russell McEwan nació el 21 de junio de 1948 en Aldershot, Inglaterra, hijo de David McEwan y Rose Lilian Violet Moore. Pasó parte de su infancia en Asia Oriental, Alemania y el norte de África debido al destino militar de su padre. A los doce años regresó a Inglaterra y estudió en Woolverstone Hall School, luego en la Universidad de Sussex, donde obtuvo un B.A. en Literatura Inglesa, y en la Universidad de Anglia del Este, donde completó un M.A. en Escritura Creativa. Publicó su primera colección de relatos en 1975 y desde entonces ha escrito novelas, guiones y obras teatrales. Está casado con Annalena McAfee desde 1997 y tiene dos hijos.
