Jafar's review
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
Jafar's review
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Jafar's review
rating:
Ian McEwan is a great writer for sure, but someone needs to explain to me why this book won the Booker Prize.
The story is about a dead woman, three of her lovers, and her husband. The husband discovers a set of pictures, taken by the deceased wife, of one of the lovers, who’s the Foreign Secretary, posing as a cross-dresser. He gives the pictures to another lover, who’s a newspaper editor, out of personal revenge. The editor has his own personal and political agenda. And then there’s the third lover who’s a composer and gets tangled up in this affair. The story develops into something that is not only unexpected, but implausible. McEwan doesn’t develop the characters and the events to fit his storyline.
The story is about a dead woman, three of her lovers, and her husband. The husband discovers a set of pictures, taken by the deceased wife, of one of the lovers, who’s the Foreign Secretary, posing as a cross-dresser. He gives the pictures to another lover, who’s a newspaper editor, out of personal revenge. The editor has his own personal and political agenda. And then there’s the third lover who’s a composer and gets tangled up in this affair. The story develops into something that is not only unexpected, but implausible. McEwan doesn’t develop the characters and the events to fit his storyline.
