Die Keats-Forscherin Clarissa und der Wissenschaftsjournalist Joe waren ein glückliches Paar - bis zu dem Tag, an dem Joe den tödlichen Ausgang eines Ballonunfalls mitverschuldet. Nicht nur durch Schuldgefühle gerät sein Leben aus der Bahn, sondern auch durch den Mitwisser und Mittäter Jed Parry. Denn dieser entwickelt Joe gegenüber eine extreme Form der Liebe, einen wahren Liebeswahn. Joe versucht verzweifelt, sich gegen diese Obsession zur Wehr zu setzen. Meisterhaft und spannend schildert der erfolgreiche englische Autor, wie ein Psychopath eine Ehe zu zerstören droht.

Informationen zum Autor Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites , won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time , which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden ; Enduring Love ; Amsterdam , which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement ; Saturday ; On Chesil Beach ; Solar ; Sweet Tooth ; The Children Act ; Nutshell ; Machines Like Me ; and Lessons . Atonement , Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen. Klappentext Beautifully written and compelling novel rich with diversity, imagination, and intelligence. Now a major motion picture starring Samantha Morton, Rhys Ifans, Daniel Craig and Bill Nighy. Zusammenfassung Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.

Vorwort
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

'I cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling form the very first page' Bill Bryson, Sunday Times

Klappentext

Beautifully written and compelling novel rich with diversity, imagination, and intelligence. Now a major motion picture starring Samantha Morton, Rhys Ifans, Daniel Craig and Bill Nighy.

Zusammenfassung
Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.