Cet auteur explore les relations complexes entre la science et l'éthique, la technologie et l'humanité. Ses œuvres, souvent situées dans le présent, révèlent les tensions cachées sous la surface de vies apparemment ordinaires. Le style de McEwan se caractérise par une profondeur psychologique saisissante et un langage précis qui plonge le lecteur dans les dilemmes de ses personnages. Par son écriture, il incite à la réflexion sur la nature du libre arbitre et les conséquences de nos choix.
"Искупление" — это поразительная в своей искренности "хроника утраченного времени", которую ведет девочка-подросток, на свой причудливый и по-детски жестокий лад переоценивая и переосмысливая события "взрослой" жизни. Став свидетелем изнасилования, она трактует его по-своему — и приводит в действие цепочку роковых событий, которая аукнется самым неожиданным образом через много лет.
Original cover edition here When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge, persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should either of them be stricken with such an illness, the other will bring about his death. From this point onward we are in little doubt as to Amsterdam's outcome--it's only a matter of who will kill whom. In the meantime, compromising photographs of Molly's most distinguished lover, foreign secretary Julian Garmony, have found their way into the hands of the press, and as rumors circulate he teeters on the edge of disgrace. However, this is McEwan, so it is no surprise to find that the rather unsavory Garmony comes out on top. Ian McEwan is master of the writer's craft, and while this is the sort of novel that wins prizes, his characters remain curiously soulless amidst the twists and turns of plot.