Ian McEwan has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 54 ratings. The most-rated is Machines Like Me.
Machines Like Me
Summary
New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winner and international best-selling author of Atonement and The Children Act Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong, and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control.
©2019 Ian McEwan (P)2019 Recorded Books
Solar
Summary
Features the author in converstation with his editor, Dan Franklin.
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming.
A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard’s professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for him to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career, and save the world from environmental disaster.
Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, Solar is a serious and darkly satirical novel, showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time. A story of one man’s greed and self-deception, it is a profound and stylish new work from one of the world’s great writers.
©2010 Ian McEwan (P)2010 Random House Audiobooks
Enduring Love
Summary
Ian McEwan has earned international acclaim for his writing and is considered one of England's best contemporary novelists. In Enduring Love, he sets a tale of obsession and desperation spinning amidst one man's comfortable British world. On a sunny afternoon, the middle-aged writer Joe Rose and his wife look up from their picnic in the countryside to see an elderly man desperately trying to anchor his giant helium balloon. Running to help, Joe is joined by other bystanders. But from that fateful day, one of them, Jed Parry, will begin to stalk Joe. Driven by religious zeal and misdirected love, the strange young man will slowly unravel each strand of Joe's life. Perfectly capturing the moments when a familiar world begins to shift out of balance, this first-person narrative traces Joe's growing unease and frustration. As Joe watches his marriage, his profession, and his character dissolve, Enduring Love fills with psychological tension and emotional suspense.
©1998 Ian McEwan (P)2003 Recorded Books, LLC
The Innocent
Summary
War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him and the listener into a new type of story that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible.
©1990 Ian McEwan (P)2003 Recorded Books, LLC
Amsterdam
Summary
En kold dag i februar mødes de to gamle venner Clive og Vernon uden for et krematorium for at tage afsked med Molly Lane. Clive, der er Storbritanniens mest succesfulde moderne komponist, og Vernon, der er chefredaktør for en af landets største aviser, har begge været Mollys elskere. Det samme har Julian, Storbritanniens udenrigsminister og premiereminister in spe, som også er mødt op til begravelsen, der afholdes af Mollys efterladte ægtemand George. De fire mænd, der alle på den ene eller anden måde har noget i klemme, hvirvles ind i nogle moralske dilemmaer, der fører til katastrofale beslutninger, og en venskabspagt mellem Clive og Vernon får fuldstændigt uforudsete konsekvenser. Please note: This audiobook is in Danish.
©1998 Ian McEwan (P)2013 Bechs Forlag - Viatone
Saturday
Summary
Henry Perowne, 48, ist ein zufriedener Mann: Erfolgreich als Neurochirurg, glücklich verheiratet, zwei begabte Kinder. Das einzige, was ihn leicht beunruhigt, ist der Zustand der Welt. Es ist Samstag, und er freut sich auf sein Squashspiel. Doch an diesem speziellen Samstag, dem 15. Februar 2003, ist nicht nur die größte Friedensdemonstration aller Zeiten in London. Perowne hat unversehens eine Begegnung, die ihm jeden Frieden raubt...
©2005 Diogenes Verlag (P)2016 Diogenes Verlag