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The Innocent

Ian McEwan

Paperback | Pages: 226 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 9158 Users | 716 Reviews

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Title	:	The Innocent
Author	:	Ian McEwan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 226 pages
Published	:	2005 by Vintage (first published May 10th 1990)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Cultural. Germany

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Psychological thriller set in Berlin during the Cold War, based on an actual (but little known) incident which tells of the secret tunnel under the Soviet sector which the British and Americans built in 1954 to gain access to the Russians' communication system. The protagonist, Leonard Marnham, is a 25-year-old, naive, unsophisticated English post office technician who is astonished and alarmed to find himself involved in a top-secret operation. At the same time that he loses his political innocence, Leonard experiences his sexual initiation in a clandestine affair with a German divorcee five years his senior. As his two secret worlds come together, events develop into a gruesome nightmare, building to a searing, unforgettable scene of surrealist intensity in which Leonard and his lover try to conceal evidence of a murder. Acting to save himself from a prison sentence, Leonard desperately performs an act of espionage whose ironic consequences resonate down the years to a twister of an ending. Though its plot rivals any thriller in narrative tension, this novel is also a character study--of a young man coming of age in bizarre circumstances, and of differences in national character: the gentlemanly Brits, all decorum and civility; the brash, impatient Americans; the cynical Germans. McEwan's neat, tensile prose raises this book to the highest level of the genre.

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Original Title:	The Innocent
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Berlin(Germany)

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This.. was just a really disgusting book, on so many levels. There's a lot to be said (and very little of it good) for a novel in which every character is genuinely dis likable. Leonard is self-obsessed and pathetically ignorant as opposed to innocent. McEwan tries to make the point that he transforms throughout the book but he really doesn't. He is the same selfish and irresponsible little man thrown amidst matters that are much bigger than him, yet he handles them with regards only to his own

'To innocence. And to Anglo-German co-operation.'This is what Leonard, a stuffy English engineer who has been sent to post-war, pre-wall Berlin to assist in an attempt to tap Soviet landlines, and Maria, a mysterious German divorcee who initiates him in the art of love, say to each other at their engagement party. Just a few pages later, they lose their innocence in the most gruesome fashion imaginable, after which Anglo-German co-operation takes a back seat and confusion and paranoia take over.

I love-love-love Ian McEwan, and I'm going to remember this holiday season as the time I "rediscovered" Ian McEwan. I read a lot of books by him a few years ago, but not ALL of his books. And I read everything new he publishes. But I ended up reading this book rather inadvertently. It just came out on the Kindle in December, and I stumbled across it and "preordered" it thinking that it was a new publication -- only to later discover that he had written it in '89 and it was only the Kindle

The only thing that redeemed this book from one star to two was the author's note on the last page, revealing that this fictional story was based very loosely on an actual MI6-CIA operation, with one character having actually lived. Apart from this tiny bit of truth it had no business calling itself a spy novel; what a laboriously, dreary waste of my time. The only reason I finished it so quickly was because I skipped over a dozen or so of the most boring descriptions of tunnelling and

This is not a thriller or a spy novel, although those are elements of the story. It is, like McEwan's other books, a tightly woven portrait - this time of a young naive Englishman in Berlin in 1955. Sometimes McEwan is just too perfectly contrived - like "Saturday" was - but here I had no idea how everything would turn out. There is tension and menace right from the start, but it is nothing like you would expect, and the ending is entirely appropriate. I couldn't put it down - read it in two

McEwan does the Cold War thriller. An excellent read by one of the best living English language authors. And for the record, I had sufficient testosterone to get through, in one go, the gut-wrenching scene located amidships. It was graphic, but don't let the namby-pamby reviewers telling you they had to set down the book, overcome by revulsion and fear as they were, steer you in the wrong direction. To them I say, there's always Maeve Binchy.

I wish I knew what this 1990 novel was trying to be, because as well written as the prose is, The Innocent feels all over the place. Its a post-WWII Berlin spy novel, but its mostly about politics not so much between the Russians and the west, but between Germany, the Americans, and the British. Its also a coming-of-age story, in a way; though the protagonist is 30, hes still a bit naïve. Finally, there are small turns in the plot that seem unlikely and then seriously improbable, and filled