THE CHILDREN ACT - IAN MCEWAN

Libro

Editorial	Vintage
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Autor	MCEWAN IAN
ISBN	9780099599630
Peso ( kg )	0,186
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2015
Formato	Tapa rustica
Sinopsis	THE CHILDREN ACT A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts. But Fiona's professional success belies domestic strife. Her husband, Jack, asks her to consider an open marriage and, after an argument, moves out of their house. His departure leaves her adrift, wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really fears. She decides to throw herself into her work, especially a complex case involving a seventeen-year-old boy whose parents will not permit a lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses. But Jack doesn't leave her thoughts, and the pressure to resolve the case-as well as her crumbling marriage-tests Fiona in ways that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page. Edad recomendada: Adultos. MCEWAN IAN Ian Russell McEwan nació el 21 de junio de 1948 en Aldershot, Inglaterra, hijo de David McEwan y Rose Lilian Violet Moore. Pasó parte de su infancia en Asia Oriental, Alemania y el norte de África debido al destino militar de su padre. A los doce años regresó a Inglaterra y estudió en Woolverstone Hall School, luego en la Universidad de Sussex, donde obtuvo un B.A. en Literatura Inglesa, y en la Universidad de Anglia del Este, donde completó un M.A. en Escritura Creativa. Publicó su primera colección de relatos en 1975 y desde entonces ha escrito novelas, guiones y obras teatrales. Está casado con Annalena McAfee desde 1997 y tiene dos hijos.
Cantidad de páginas	224
Fecha Ingreso	18-03-2026