Superbly evocative prose. The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities
New York Times Book Review

Superbly evocative prose. The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities
New York Times Book Review

Brilliant - a meditation on the intoxications of violence and the redemptive power of love
New Yorker

Brilliant - a meditation on the intoxications of violence and the redemptive power of love
New Yorker

Compassionate without resorting to sentimentality, clever without ever losing its honesty, an undisguised novel of ideas which is also Ian McEwan's most human work
Times Literary Supplement

Compassionate without resorting to sentimentality, clever without ever losing its honesty, an undisguised novel of ideas which is also Ian McEwan's most human work
Times Literary Supplement