In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults
“I did not kill my father, but sometimes I felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared with what followed. I am only including the little story of his death to explain how my sisters and I came to have such a large quantity of cement at our disposal.”In the relentless summer heat, four children retreat into an isolated world left to them by their parents and attempt to create their own version of a family. Ian McEwan’s first novel, The Cement Garden, written in 1978, explores coming-of-age, burgeoning sexuality and the distortions of a fourteen-year-old mind.David Aula and Jimmy Osborne’s stage adaptation approaches the horror of the story through the innocent eyes of children, and encourages an audience to remember the games, irreverence, and shadows of their youth: to remember and reinvent their sense of invincibility.The Cement Garden received its world premiere as part of
In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...
英國國家圖書獎、曼布克獎、毛姆獎得主伊恩．麥克尤恩的第一部長篇小說，被譽為現代性慾版的《蒼蠅王》（Lord of the Flies）的驚駭作品！ 水泥地上有沒有伊甸園？ 在父母相繼過世之後，四個兄弟姊妹為了不被拆散，於是隱暪父母雙亡的祕密，獨自居住在荒廢的家園，過著孤島般的生活。只要他們繼續保持這個祕密，他們便可以愛做什麼就做什麼……他們究竟做了什麼？ 【好評推薦】◎「全盤吸引讀者的注意力
