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The Innocent

by Ian McEwan
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The Innocent
The Innocent

Cold War secrets converge with personal awakenings.

If you're drawn to the cloak-and-dagger realm of Cold War espionage blended with the poignant, personal journey of a young man, "The Innocent" might just be the book to captivate you. Ian McEwan's masterful prose elevates the thrilling narrative, intertwining a gripping secret operation with a tale of innocence lost. The juxtaposition of political and sexual awakening, set against the stark tension of 1950s Berlin, creates a reading experience filled with suspense and emotional depth.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780099277095
Authors: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2023-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Related Topics: Espionage, Mystery, Thriller
Goodreads rating: 3.72
(rated by 13638 readers)

Description

Psychological thriller set in Berlin during the Cold War, inspired by a real but little-known incident about the secret tunnel under the Soviet sector that the British and Americans built in the 1950s to tap into the Russians' communications system. The protagonist, Leonard Marnham, is a 25-year-old, naive English post office technician who is astonished and alarmed to find himself involved in a top-secret operation. As he loses his political innocence, Leonard experiences his sexual initiation in a clandestine affair with a German divorcee five years his senior. As his two secret worlds collide, events unfold into a gruesome nightmare, building to a searing, unforgettable scene of surreal intensity in which Leonard and his lover try to conceal evidence of a murder. To save himself from a prison sentence, Leonard performs an act of espionage whose ironic consequences resonate down the years to a twist of an ending. Though its plot rivals any thriller in narrative tension, this novel is also a character study: of a young man coming of age in bizarre circumstances and of differences in national character: the gentlemanly Brits, all decorum and civility; the brash, impatient Americans; the cynical Germans. McEwan's neat, tensile prose raises this book to the highest level of the genre.
 

Cold War secrets converge with personal awakenings.

If you're drawn to the cloak-and-dagger realm of Cold War espionage blended with the poignant, personal journey of a young man, "The Innocent" might just be the book to captivate you. Ian McEwan's masterful prose elevates the thrilling narrative, intertwining a gripping secret operation with a tale of innocence lost. The juxtaposition of political and sexual awakening, set against the stark tension of 1950s Berlin, creates a reading experience filled with suspense and emotional depth.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.