Black Dogs Book

Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of Bernard and June Tremaine's marriage, as witnessed by their son-in-law, Jeremy, who seeks to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences that seem irreconcilable. In writing June's memoirs, Jeremy is led back to a moment, that was, for June, as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy's own time. Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civilization's darkest moods — its black dogs — with the tensions that both create love and destroy it.

In his most subtly provocative novel yet, the acclaimed author of The Innocent takes readers to the fall of the Berlin Wall--and the crumbling of a marriage. "A study of the fragile nobility of the human spirit in the face of the irrational, the terrible, and the miraculous."--Washington Post Book World.