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Welcome back, mr. McEwan. I have missed you, but I'm glad you can still churn out a most beautiful novel.
We follow Roland Baines through his life and a lot of historical events that happend (the war, the Berlin Wall, Cold War, Tsjernobyl, the rise of Johnson and Farage, Brexit...) from the age of eleven until he is in his seventies.
He is a vulnerable boy who becomes a restless man. He always meets strong women who shape the rest of his life. There is Miriam Cornell, his piano teacher, who seduces him, Alissa Eberhardt, his wife who leaves him and their son to pursue a career in writing and Daphne, the one who keeps him on track.
Baines looks back on his life and tries to see what he has learned. He reflects on whether it could have been different or not.
This book is exactly why I like McEwan so much. His portrayal of people and events is so good. Like when the piano teacher seduces the 11 and after that 14 yo old Roland, it feels like a normal thing, until your own morals kick in and you're like: what the hell are you doing woman.
Roland is a kind of anti-hero who is extremely likeable. He basically just moves on with whatever life throws in his way. He isn't obsessed with wrong choices. He just lives his life and deals with it.
We follow Roland Baines through his life and a lot of historical events that happend (the war, the Berlin Wall, Cold War, Tsjernobyl, the rise of Johnson and Farage, Brexit...) from the age of eleven until he is in his seventies.
He is a vulnerable boy who becomes a restless man. He always meets strong women who shape the rest of his life. There is Miriam Cornell, his piano teacher, who seduces him, Alissa Eberhardt, his wife who leaves him and their son to pursue a career in writing and Daphne, the one who keeps him on track.
Baines looks back on his life and tries to see what he has learned. He reflects on whether it could have been different or not.
This book is exactly why I like McEwan so much. His portrayal of people and events is so good. Like when the piano teacher seduces the 11 and after that 14 yo old Roland, it feels like a normal thing, until your own morals kick in and you're like: what the hell are you doing woman.
Roland is a kind of anti-hero who is extremely likeable. He basically just moves on with whatever life throws in his way. He isn't obsessed with wrong choices. He just lives his life and deals with it.