Ian McEwan’s ‘Black Dogs'
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Preacher: The Rev’d Canon Mark Oakley, Dean, St John's College
Ian McEwan’s ‘Black Dogs’. Written in 1982, this concerns the aftermath of the Nazi era in Europe, and how the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s affected those who once saw Communism as a way forward for society. The main characters travel to France, where they encounter disturbing residues of Nazism still at large in the French countryside. The review in The Times Literary Supplement commented that the book is ‘compassionate without resorting to sentimentality, clever without losing its honesty, an undisguised novel of ideas which is also Ian McEwan's most human work’. Zadie Smith likewise commented that it is a ‘brilliant, flinty little novel, bursting with big ideas’. |
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| Created: | 2021-10-10 19:31 |
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| Collection: | M21 - Desert Island Books |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Mark Oakley |
| Language: | eng (English) |