by Ian McEwan · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099755111
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«The Cement Garden» is the debut novel by writer Ian McEwan, published by Vintage in paperback, with 144 pages in English.
In a stifling summer, four siblings who have just lost their parents are left alone in the family home and begin to live beyond any adult supervision. They invent their own rules and routines to cope with the absence, while the outside world looms over them and their coexistence becomes increasingly unsettling.
Ian McEwan's first novel, originally published in 1978; the author won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam.
For adult readers of literary fiction and coming-of-age novels who appreciate bleak atmospheres and family dramas.
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".
