内容简介:Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone.With extraordinary tenderness and insight, Booker Prize–winning author Ian McEwan takes us into the dark territory of a marriage devastated by the loss of a child. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife, Julie, on diverging paths as they each struggle with a grief that only seems to intensify with the passage of time. Eloquent and passionate, the novel concludes in a triumphant scene of love and hope that gives full rein to the author's remarkable gifts. The winner of the Whitbread Prize,
The Child in Time is an astonishing novel by one of the finest writers of his generation.
作者简介:Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels
The Comfort of Strangersand
Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize,
Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize,
and
The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award, as well as the story collections
First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and
In Between the Sheets. He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a children’s book, and the libretto for an oratorio. He lives in London.,,