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A Jeremy, huerfano desde los ocho anos, siempre le han fascinado los padres de sus amigos. En la adolescencia, cuando ellos se rebelaban contra sus padres, el era el buen chico que les acompanaba y satisfacia sus deseos. Ahora, a los cuarenta anos, su ultimo amor filial son los padres de su esposa, June y Bernard Tremaine, personas de cierta notoriedad, cuya biografia Jeremy ha decidido escribir. Y asi, con la historia de la progresiva reconstruccion de la vida e ideas de los Tremaine, Ian McEwan ha escrito una de las novelas clave de nuestra epoca, un inquietante cuadro bajo cuyos colores se transparenta la textura ideologica del siglo XX desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. June y Bernard Tremaine, fervientes militantes del partido comunista, se casaron inmediatamente despues de la guerra y en 1946 emprendieron un tardio y largo viaje de bodas que les llevo a Francia, y tras el cual vivieron toda su vida separados, aunque nunca se divorciaron.
About the Author
Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories ; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for ; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for in 1998. His novel received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002) , National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003) , Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003) , and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004) . He was awarded a CBE in 2000. In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel and his novel was named Galaxy Book of the Year at the 2008 British Book Awards where McEwan was also named Reader's Digest Author of the Year. McEwan lives in London.
