![]() In "The Cement Garden," a group of children are orphanedĪnd bury their mother in the basement. ![]() In "The Comfort of Strangers," a pair of middle-class tourists fall prey to a Machiavellian sadist during a trip to Venice. Like so many of the author's stories, "Amsterdam" concerns the sudden intrusion of violent, perverse events into his characters' mundane lives, events that cruelly expose the psychological fault lines running beneath One can only hope that this small, perfectly fashioned novel - novella, really - will send readers back to the rest of the talented McEwan's oeuvre. Than "The Innocent," his 1990 masterpiece of Cold War suspense. ![]()
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