Ian McEwan
English novelist and screenwriter (born 1948), author of novels and short stories including Atonement and Amsterdam (winner of the 1998 Booker Prize), known for psychological realism and darkly comic themes.
Books
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1. A Barata
A darkly comic, Kafkaesque political satire that follows an unlikely insect protagonist whose sudden centrality to a surreal upheaval exposes the absurdities of contemporary British politics; through sharp, economical prose the novella skewers populism, media spectacle and the mechanics of power while probing questions of identity, consciousness and the fragility of democratic institutions, rendering politicians and citizens alike grotesque and laughably vulnerable to rhetoric, fear and vanity.