The cement garden [WorldCat Entities]

"Cement garden"@it
"Cement garden"@pl
"Comfort of garden"

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"In this tour de force of psychological unease, now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack, McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World."
"In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies".--Washington Post Book World."@en
"Omdat vier vaderloze kinderen bang zijn na de dood van hun moeder in een weeshuis te worden opgenomen, begraven zij haar in de tuin en verzwijgen dit voor de buitenwereld."
"Omdat vier vaderloze kinderen bang zijn na de dood van hun moeder in een weeshuis te worden opgenomen, begraven zij haar in de kelder en verzwijgen dit voor de buitenwereld."
"When their mother dies, four children living in an isolated house in London find themselves without guidance for the entire summer."@en
"When their mother dies, four children living in an isolated house in London find themselves without guidance for the entire summer."
"Four children, having already lost their father, are fearful of separation after the death of their mother. They strike upon a rather novel solution of hiding her death, and their family dynamics are altered."
"In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves."
"Ian McEwan is known to skirt the edge with his writing; the fringes of society, to test the limits of what we can handle perhaps in our worlds as we bring his writing home with us and allow a whole new being to enter. So it is with The Cement Garden, the story of dying family who live in a dying part of the city. The father of four children decides, in an effort to make his garden easier to control, to pave it over. In the process, he has a heart attack and dies, leaving the cement garden unfinished and the children to the care of their mother. Soon after, the mother too dies and the children, fearful of being separated by social services, decide to cover up their parents' deaths: they bury their mother in the cement garden. All of the children are free thinking independent-minded teenagers. The story is told from the point of view of Jack, one of the sons, the narrator who is entering adolescence with all of its curiosity and appetites that he must contend with (along ..."@en