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In order to avoid being taken into foster care, the children hide their mother's death from the outside world by encasing her corpse in cement in the cellar. The children then attempt to live on their own. The narrator is Jack (13 at the start of the book) and his siblings are Julie (17), Sue (13), and Tom (6).
- Ian Russell McEwan
- 1978
English author Ian McEwan's first novel, The Cement Garden (1978) tells the story of four siblings between the ages of six and seventeen who struggle to survive on their own after the deaths of their mother and father. In 1993, the book was adapted into a film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Nov 21, 2023 · Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden is part Gothic horror, part psychological drama. It describes what happens when a family's mother and father die, leaving narrator Jack and his three siblings...
- The Cement Garden is a story about incest and trauma. The plot follows four siblings as they navigate the trauma of their parents' death and strugg...
- The Cement Garden is classified as psychological fiction, but contains elements of horror and domestic fiction as well. The Cement Garden draws hea...
- The Cement Garden ends with Jack and Julie consummating their assumed roles as mother and father. During the dysfunctional, perverse consummation,...
In “The Cement Garden,” Ian McEwan tells a disturbing tale of family secrets and the consequences of keeping them hidden. The novel follows four siblings who are left to fend for themselves after their parents die.
Jan 1, 1978 · Ian McEwan. 3.54. 32,877 ratings2,568 reviews. In this tour de force of psychological unease - now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack - McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting or denying.
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The crumbling garden, and the air of urban degeneration gives the atmosphere of a post-modern hotchpotch of weeds, wasteland, modern high rise flats and dilapidated, dated prefabs - a squalid but diverse if sketchily drawn environment.
Aug 31, 2024 · To avoid being taken into care, the four children – suddenly orphaned – bury their mother in cement in the basement, after which they attempt to continue a normal life, with the eldest, brisk,...
