Amsterdam: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) [Paperback]

The Booker Prize-winning contemporary morality tale—cleverly disguised as a comic novel—from the acclaimed author ofAtonement.

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is a newspaper editor. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen…Winner of the Booker Prize

A dark tour de force, perfectly fashioned. —Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times

A well-oiled machine. . . . Ruthless and amusing.  —The New York Times Book Review

Beautifully spare prose, wicked observation, and dark comic brio.  —The Boston Globe

At once far-reaching and tightly self-contained, a fin de siécle phantasmagoria.  —New York

Ian McEwan has proven himself to be one of Britain's most distinct voices and one of its most versatile talents. . . . Chilling and darkly comic.  —Chicago Tribune

By far his best work to date . . . an energizing tightrope between feeling and lack of feeling, between humanity's capacity to support and save and its equally ubiquitous penchant for detachment and cruelty.  —The San Diego Union-Tribune

You won't find a more enjoyable novel . . . masterfully wrought, sure to delight a reader with even half a sense of humor. —The Atlant Journal-Constitution

McEwan writes the sort of witty repartee and scathing retort we wished we thought of in the healĂ&