IAN McEWAN is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including the novels Sweet Tooth; Solar, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; On Chesil Beach; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both short-listed for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets. He lives in Gloucestershire
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts.
But Fiona's professional success belies domestic strife. Her husband, Jack, asks her to consider an open marriage and, after an argument, moves out of their house. His departure leaves her adrift, wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really fears. She decides to throw herself into her work, especially a complex case involving a seventeen-year-old boy whose parents will not permit a lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses. But Jack doesn't leave her thoughts, and the pressure to resolve the case—as well as her crumbling marriage—tests Fiona in ways that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page.
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看到豆瓣有人評論,說對這種精緻的十萬字左右的故事感到膩味。我也有類似的感受,並且又開始質疑小說的意義。 如果我們可以用理性精確的語言來探討宗教、信仰和倫理問題,那麼信息量會更大,也更有思維價值。小說隻是浮於錶層的,讓我們窺視瞭這一嚴肅而深刻的話題。它不需要太...
評分圖書標籤: IanMcEwan 小說 英國文學 英國 外國文學 伊恩·麥剋尤恩 美國文學 law
被電影牽著不由得不讀。喘五口氣讀完。真真是帶著英倫的森森雨氣。He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning.種種心裏描寫繁復又反復,人心真是… 或許應該寫篇書評瞭。推薦~
評分Is there any place between attachment and detachment?
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評分寫得好!喜歡!宗教倫理,傢庭倫理
The Children Act 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載