"Brilliant.... [A] meditation on ... the intoxications and the redemptive power of love." –The New Yorker
"Subtle and unforgettable." –
Voice Literary Supplement "The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities ... we are conquered by the humanity, the urgency, of the novel's characters." –
The New York Times Book Review "Each scene is brilliantly lit, and has a characteristically strange fascination as Ian McEwan juxtaposes 'huge and tiny currents' to show the ways in which individuals react to history." –
The New York Review of Books