<속죄>, <시멘트 가든>, <토요일> 등의 작품을 통해 도덕성의 문제, 인간의 광기, 폭력을 강도 높게 파헤쳐온 영국 작가 이언 매큐언 장편소설. 남성의 심리, 편집증, 위선, 성적인 질투심과 냉혹한 경쟁의식, 강박적인 성취욕 등 현대인의 병적인 정신상태를 예리하게 해부한 블랙 코미디로, 1998년 부커 상을 수상했다.

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor of the newspaper The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister.

In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits, and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life. A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is "as sheerly enjoyable a book as one is likely to pick up this year" (The Washington Post Book World).

Contributor Bio:  McEwan, Ian
Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including "Atonement," winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and "Amsterdam," winner of the Booker Prize. He lives in London.