Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of Bernard and June Tremaines marriage, as witnessed by their son-in-law, Jeremy, who seeks to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences that seem irreconcilable. In writing Junes memoirs, Jeremy is led back to a moment, that was, for June, as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremys own time. Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civilizations darkest moods its black dogs with the tensions that both create love and destroy it.From the Trade Paperback edition.
| ISBN: | 9780307367006 |
| Publication date: | 20th July 2010 |
| Author: | McEwan, Ian |
| Publisher: | Knopf Canada |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |