Ian McEwan

On Chesil Beach

Juni 1962. Nygifte Edward og Florence er i et hotell ved Chesil beach i Dorset hvor de akkurat skal til å spise middag. Ingen av dem klarer å skjule nervøsiteten de føler rundt den kommende bryllupsnatta. Romanen handler om hvordan et helt livsløp kan endres bare på grunn av en gest som ikke utføres eller et ord som ikke blir uttalt.

It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come..."On Chesil Beach" is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.