Amsterdam - ian mcewan

The wickedly comic Booker Prize winner.

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to the woman who had been a lover to both of them.

In the days that follow the funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact that will have consequences that neither man could have foreseen.

The Booker Prize-winning contemporary morality tale--cleverly disguised as a comic novel--from the acclaimed author of Atonement .

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 Mollys lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britains most successful modern composer, and Vernon is a newspaper editor .

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 Mollys funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen.