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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
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ian McEwan
- Publisher
- Blackbirds
- Released
- 2004
- ISBN10
- 9001558763
- ISBN13
- 9789001558765
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Religious Topics, Thriller, Contemporary Fiction, British Literature, Psychological Thrillers, Literary Fiction, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Coming Of Age, Novellas, Jewish Literature, Vacation, Dread, Fear, Venice, Domestic violence
- First published
- 1981
- Original title
- The Comfort of Strangers
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- 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