內容簡介
Fiona 5e is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family court. 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.
作者簡介
IAN McEWAN is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including the novels
Sweet Tooth;
Solar, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize;
On Chesil Beach;
Saturday;
Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award;
The Comfort of Strangers and
Black Dogs, both short-listed for the Booker Prize;
Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and
The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections
First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and
In Between the Sheets.,,
精彩書評
"As in "Atonement", what doesn't happen has the power to destroy; as in "Amsterdam", McEwan probes the dread beneath civilized society. In spare prose, he examines cases, people, and situations, to reveal anger, sorrow, shame, impulse, and yearning. He rejects religious dogma that lacks compassion, but scrutinizes secular morality as well ... Few will deny McEwan his place among the best of Britain's living novelists."
--"Publishers Weekly", starred review
"McEwan, always a smart, engaging writer, here takes more than one familiar situation and creates at every turn something new and emotionally rewarding in a way he hasn't done so well since "On" "Chesil Beach."
--Kirkus Reviews", starred review
"Irrefutably creative ... With his trademark style, which is a tranquil mix of exacting word choice and easily flowing sentences, McEwan once again observes with depth and wisdom the universal truth in the uncommon situation."
--"Booklist", starred review
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