Ian McEwan is one of the authors of the "ruling triumvirate" of contemporary British fiction (alongside Julian Barnes and Martin Amis), who received the Booker Prize for the novel "Amsterdam".
"The Cement Garden" is his debut book, a kind of transitional link between William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" and Mitch Cullin's "A Slight Trick of the Mind". Here, in an American cinematic style, McEwan offers his own version of what can happen to children if they are left alone without supervision. Forever.
Do you think childhood is the most carefree period of life? Listen to this book.