Name: The Children act
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Author: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9781101872871

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ian McEwan

Publisher

Anchor Books

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781101872871

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Children act "

A brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement about a leading High Court judge who must resolve an urgent case--as well as her crumbling marriage. Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now her marriage of thirty years is in crisis. At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: Adam, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy, is refusing for religious reasons the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents echo his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule sincerely expressed faith? In the course of reaching a decision, Fiona visits Adam in the hospital--an encounter that stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgment has momentous consequences for them both. Don't miss Ian McEwan's new novel, Lessons, available now.

Ian McEwan

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Ian McEwan (n. 1948) es un aclamado novelista y guionista británico, conocido por su prosa refinada y temas oscuros en sus inicios ("Ian Macabre"), que evolucionaron hacia obras maestras como Expiación y Amor perdurable, ganando prestigiosos premios como el Booker por Ámsterdam, y destacando por su exploración de la obsesión, la moralidad y la memoria, siendo adaptadas muchas de sus obras al cine con éxito

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