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Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is a British novelist and essayist whose books include Amsterdam, Atonement, Saturday, On Chesil Beach and What We Can Know. Amsterdam won the Booker Prize.

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Ian McEwan

McEwan’s essays offer a route from his childhood and early writing into the scientific, political, and cultural questions that occupy his fiction.

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