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Black Dogs

By: Ian McEwan
Narrated by: Philip Franks
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In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had planned an idyllic holiday, but in France they witness an event that alters the course of their lives entirely.

Forty years on, their son-in-law is trying to uncover the cause of their estrangement and is led back to this moment on honeymoon and an experience of such darkness it was to wrench the couple apart.

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A semi biographical book based on a life changing experience, it is both thought provoking and insightful. Well worth listening to, read splendidly by Philip Franks.

Black Dogs by Ian McEwen

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Quite a complex story so needs your full attention I found and speakers voice very staccato though I did eventually get use to it,

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Through the narrative framework of Jeremy researching for a memoir of his estranged parents in law, Bernard and June Tremaine, McEwan's 1992 novel explores the dire situation in Europe, which is remarkably appropriate to now.

Bernard and June were committed communists but their separate intellectual development separated them. Through the disjointed account of the relationship between these two and of key events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, and of the June's terrifying encounter with wild dogs on her honeymoon, McEwan presents an intellectual analysis of the rupture of Europe.

Although the characters are clearly explored through the decades, the most important element of the novel is intellectual and metaphorical, the current situation giving it extra bite.

Extremely well read.

Menace within Europe

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Liked the historical background. Especially the fall of the Berlin Wall from spectators viewpoint. Great Way of narrating complex issues

Moving back and forth in time

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a good story with nice concepts and human interactions very descriptively vivid and realistically spirital all in one. a slight dissapointment that some story lines don't get concluded

Nice story

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