The following year, Roger Boylan wrote that the novel is "the most thought-provoking" of McEwan's books and that it deserved the Booker Prize more than Amsterdam (1998). A fairly interesting read, most similar in his oeuvre (at least of the 15 I’ve read so far) to The Child in Time.

L’amore avvincente che univa June al suo promesso sposo Bernard, col quale condivideva oltre la passione una visione del mondo di dichiarata impronta marxista, s’incrina a partire da questo momento.For Jeremy, it is a matter of refracting certain experiences in his life through June's prism, examining them with Bernard's more scientific lens, and comparing the two.

Ach ja und die Aussage - naja worauf der Autor wirklich hinauswill, konnte ich nicht ganz nachvollziehen. When both of them are members of the Communist Party, they agree on everything, and their fundamentally different ways of looking at the world do not come into conflict until later on. E insistevamo nel voler liberare gli altri,volevamo pensare alla loro infelicità,usavamo la loro miseria per mascherare la nostra.

He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998.

I cani neri :simbolo dell'inquietudine innominabile e irragionevole che talvolta ti assale e incarnazione delle minacce che ti senti dentro. Jeremy was orphaned at the age of eight when his parents were killed in a car accident, and he has spent the time leading up to his early adulthood looking for a place to belong and way to feel cared for.The novel is evidently intended to tip the reader backwards and forwards between these two irreconcilable credos.