Ian McEwan won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam in 1998.I presumed that it was his best work .But it is not so .Atonement,Saturday and On Chesil Beach are his three novels , which are far superior to Amsterdam .I really wonder what made the jury of Booker Prize to select this book for the Award.
A 108 page novel reads like a long story of betrayals.Two friends Clive and Vernon poison each other in the end in Amsterdam in the most theatrical way .Garmony , the Foreign Secretary , finally loses his post.These three were the ex-lovers of a woman named Molly .
I found the book shallow and a waste of time . .It lowered my esteem for Ian McEwan and also for the jury of Booker Prize .
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