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 a
marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of
Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began
almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep love
could be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and June
cannot reconcile, Jeremy undertakes writing June's memoirs, only to
be led back again and again to one terrifying encouner forty years
earlier--a moment that, for June, was as devastating and
irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in
Jeremy's own time. In a finely crafted, compelling examination of
evil and grace, Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of
civiliation's darkest moods--its black dogs--with the tensions that
both create love and destroy it.
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