Books like Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan’s Black Dogs follows the 1946 honeymoon of June and Bernard, a couple whose idealistic love spirals into catastrophe during a dark, undisclosed event in France. Decades later, their son‑in‑law investigates the reasons behind the couple’s estrangement, uncovering the Holocaust‑era incident that tore them apart and shaped their lives for forty years.
First publish date: June 1999
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Ian McEwan
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