Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan.
Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession.
'Haunting and compelling' The Times
'No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work' New York Times
ISBN: | 9780099754916 |
Publication date: | 5th June 1997 |
Author: | Ian McEwan |
Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 134 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Psychological thriller Narrative theme: Love and relationships Narrative theme: Interior life |