The Innocent

by MCEWAN, IAN

• ISBN13: 9780385494335
• ISBN10: 0385494335
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1998-12-29
• Publisher: Anchor

Summary

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life -- and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening -- a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.

Author Biography

Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels<i> </i><b>The Comfort of Strangers</b><i> </i>and <b>Black Dogs</b><i>, </i>both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, <b>Amsterdam</b><i>, </i>winner of the Booker Prize,<i> </i>and <b>The Child in Time</b><i>, </i>winner of the Whitbread Award, as well as the story collections <b>First Love, Last Rites</b><i>, </i>winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and <b>In Between the Sheets</b><i>. </i>He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a children’s book, and the libretto for an oratorio. He lives in London.