On Chesil Beach

　　如果你喜歡當代文學，書架上一定要有一本伊恩．麥克尤恩
曼布克文學獎得主
2007年曼布克文學獎決選作品
2007年大英國協傑出文學獎得主

她從未像那刻如此愛他，如此絕望，只要他的一絲聲音就能成為她的救贖，她就可以轉過身。但是他在夏日薄暮中冷冷站著，沉默不語，自以為是，看著她沿著海岸疾行，辛苦跋涉的腳步聲逐漸被細碎拍擊海岸的浪花聲淹沒，直到她變成一個遙遠模糊的針點……

即使是伊恩．麥克尤恩最爛的小說，英國人也充滿期待。《紐約時報書評》
書中那根陰毛，可說是小說史上最具表達力的陰毛。《紐約時報》
一本關於糟糕性愛的完美小說。《愛爾蘭時報》
從《贖罪》到《星期六》，這是麥克尤恩的成熟風格，光彩文雅，迥異於他早年的驚悚作風。《衛報》
一場躊躇的求愛之舞。《泰晤士報》

作者簡介

伊恩．麥克尤恩(Ian McEwan)

　　生於一九四八年，是英國當代文壇重要作家，他的作品曾四度入圍曼布克獎決選名單。麥克尤恩擅長以細膩、犀利而又疏冷的文筆勾繪現代人內在的種種不安和恐懼，積極探討暴力、死亡、愛慾和善惡的問題。著作包括《水泥花園》（中譯本商周預定出版）、《陌生人的慰藉》、《時間中的小孩》、《無罪者》、《黑犬》、《做白日夢的人》、《愛無可忍》（改編電影為《紅氣球之戀》）、《阿姆斯特丹》、《贖罪》、《星期六》與《卻西爾海灘》等長篇小說，兩本短篇小說集《初戀異想》（中譯本商周出版）和《床單之間》，以及數部劇作和一部論述。

其中，《初戀異想》是作者的處女作，獲得一九七五年莫姆獎。《阿姆斯特丹》《贖罪》《星期六》與《卻西爾海灘》（中譯本商周出版）都進入了英語文壇最重要的布克文學獎（即曼布克獎）決選名單，《時間中的小孩》榮獲惠特布德年度長篇小說獎，《阿姆斯特丹》（中譯本商周出版）榮獲曼布克文學獎，《贖罪》獲美國國家書評人獎文學獎。

　　A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.

　　It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florence’s response to his advances and nurses a private fear of failure, while Florence’s anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by sheer disgust at the idea of physical contact, but dreads disappointing her husband when they finally lie down together in the honeymoon suite.

　　Ian McEwan has caught with understanding and compassion the innocence of Edward and Florence at a time when marriage was presumed to be the outward sign of maturity and independence. On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from McEwan-a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

作者簡介

Ian McEwan, one of the most acclaimed literary novelists working today, is also one of the most adventurous. His books are as unsettling for their insights into the human condition as they are for their at times macabre situations and plotlines. But however unexpected the story, McEwan always delivers a work of wonderfully fluid writing and distinct, memorable characters.

作者官方網站 www.ianmcewan.com/