by Ian McEwan · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433960054
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In the grand country house of the Tallis family, the mother has locked herself in her room with a migraine, and Mr. Tallis, an important official, is, as almost always, in London. Briony, the youngest daughter, thirteen years old, desperate to be an adult and already wounded by literature, has written a play to entertain her brother Leon, who has finished his exams at the university and is returning home today with a friend. Cecilia, the eldest of the Tallis, has also returned a few days ago from Cambridge, where she has not obtained the high grades she expected. Who has done so, however, is Robbie Turner, the brilliant son of the Tallis' maid and family protégé, who pays for his studies. It is the hottest day of the summer of 1935, and the lives of the inhabitants of the mansion seem to slip away with peaceful elegance. But if the reader has sharpened his ear, he will have already perceived some subtle dissonant notes, and begins to wait for the moment when the worm that inhabits the delicious apple sticks its head out. Where will he do it? There is a curious tension between Cecilia and Robbie. And another potentially dangerous situation: Mrs. Tallis' sister has abandoned her husband, has gone to Paris with another man and has sent her daughter Lola, a fifteen-year-old nymphet, wise and seductive, to her uncles' house. And the fiercely imaginative Briony sees Cecilia coming out of a fountain soaked, dressed only in her underwear, while Robbie watches her...
Ian Russell McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 out of "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
