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[10] The Cement Garden is David Aaronovitch's favorite McEwan novel. [11] Eileen Battersby of The Irish Times called the book "shocking" and placed it fifth along with The Comfort of Strangers (1981) in her list of recommended books by the author. [12] It was also ranked one of the author's five essential books by Book Marks in 2019. [13]
The Cement Garden is a 1993 British drama film written and directed by Andrew Birkin. [4] It is based on the 1978 novel written by Ian McEwan . [ 4 ] It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival , where Birkin won the Silver Bear for Best Director .
Ian Russell McEwan CH CBE FRSA FRSL (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter.In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
Atonement is a 2001 British metafictional novel written by Ian McEwan.Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing.
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Richard Frank Satterthwaite (born 11 December 1949), popularly known as Richard Mabala, [3] is a British-born Tanzanian author, social activist, [4] columnist [5] and academic, [6] [7] predominantly recognized for his tale books Hawa The Bus Driver, [8] Mabala The Farmer [9] and Run Free which won him a CODE's Burt Award for African Literature.
In The New York Times, the critic John Leonard called McEwan "one of the few English writers of fiction who belong these days to a dark Europe; he is a Samuel Beckett with some genital organization", but said that Thomas Mann had already written the novel and that Mann's book was better.
The accident, which left the school bus on its side, unfolded around 2 p.m. on State Highway 21 in Bastrop County, Texas, northeast of Austin, the state capital, police and fire officials said.