Name: Lessons
Brand: Penguin Random House
SKU: 9781787333987
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Author: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9781787333987

Author: Ian McEwan

C-Format·Ages 18+·Contemporary Fiction

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🖤 Fiction Tone: Reflective, literary, emotionally intricate, intellectually rich
⚡ Pace: Expansive, character-driven, deeply introspective
🌍 Vibes: Postwar Europe, fractured relationships, memory and regret, personal history
👑 Themes: Time, identity, loss, love, the impact of history on ordinary lives
🧠 Emotional Journey: Lifelong self-reflection, emotional reckoning, quiet personal transformation
🔥 Hook: Following one man’s life across decades of political and social change, hidden wounds, failed relationships, and formative experiences slowly shape his understanding of love, regret, and identity
👀 Perfect For: Fans of introspective literary fiction and emotionally layered life stories

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the best-selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic, Roland Baines sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it. When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Two thousand miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Now, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with his tiny son, Roland is forced to confront the reality of his restless existence. As the radiation from Chernobyl spreads across Europe, he begins a search for answers that looks deep into his family history and will last for the rest of his life. Haunted by lost opportunities, Roland seeks solace through every possible means—music, literature, friends, sex, politics, and, finally, love cut tragically short, then love ultimately redeemed. His journey raises important questions for us all. Can we take full charge of the course of our lives without causing damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories? And what can we really learn from the traumas of the past? Epic, mesmerizing, and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times—a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one man's lifetime.

Book details

Format: C-Format
Reading age: 18+
Pages: 486
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published: 1 January 2022
Language: English
ISBN: 9781787333987

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