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The Cement Garden received positive reviews from critics. A reviewer for Kirkus Reviews argued that although one important event in the novel seemed staged for effect, the grim book "is somehow suffused with light and warmth. Having worked such wonders with such intrinsically stunted material, McEwan calls attention to his undeniable talent.
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 .
The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981), his two earliest novels, were both adapted into films. The nature of these works caused him to be nicknamed "Ian Macabre". [ 6 ] These were followed by his first book for children, Rose Blanche (1985), and a return to literary fiction with The Child in Time (1987), winner of the 1987 ...
The reviewer argued, "McEwan seems to be a huge talent constricted by the need to preach, philosophize, or work out private obsessions; and one can only hope that writing beguiling but disappointing essay-stories like this one will free him to write more wide-ranging, full-visioned fiction in the future."
On Book Marks, the book received a "pan" consensus, based on eleven critic reviews: three "positive" and one "mixed" and seven "pan". [1] In Books in the Media, a site that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (2.35 out of 5) from the site which was based on eleven critic reviews.
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Cement (Russian: Цемент) is a socialist realism novel by Fyodor Gladkov (1883–1958). Published in 1925, the book is arguably the first in Soviet socialist realist literature to depict the struggles of post-Revolutionary reconstruction.
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