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- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
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Four children, living alone with their mother, decide not to inform the authorities when she dies. Instead they take her down into the cellar and bury her in cement and for the next days, weeks and months live far away from normal conventions.
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The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan
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- Released
- 1980
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- Title
- The Cement Garden
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ian McEwan
- Publisher
- Pan Books
- Released
- 1980
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN10
- 033025975X
- ISBN13
- 9780330259750
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Family, Contemporary Fiction, 20th century, Literary Fiction, Children, Death, England, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Loss, Psychological novels, Mothers, Siblings, Sisters, Father, Puberty, Incest, Isolation, Children with Behavioral Issues
- First published
- 1978
- Original title
- The Cement Garden
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- Four children, living alone with their mother, decide not to inform the authorities when she dies. Instead they take her down into the cellar and bury her in cement and for the next days, weeks and months live far away from normal conventions.