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The Cement Garden is a 1978 novel by Ian McEwan. It was adapted into a 1993 film of the same name by Andrew Birkin, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Andrew Robertson. The Cement Garden has had a positive reception since its original publication.
The Cement Garden is a 1993 British drama film written and directed by Andrew Birkin. It is based on the 1978 novel of the same name written by Ian McEwan. It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival, where Birkin won the Silver Bear for Best Director.
The Cement Garden tells the story of how Jack and his three siblings retreat into their own world after the death of their parents. The story is set in England during the depressing, and almost apocalyptic 1970's.
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Jan 1, 2001 · The Cement Garden. Ian McEwan. 3.54. 32,230 ratings2,485 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.
Feb 8, 2011 · The Cement Garden. Ian McEwan. RosettaBooks, Feb 8, 2011 - Fiction - 144 pages. Orphaned siblings create a macabre secret world for themselves in this “irresistibly readable” novel by the New...
The Cement Garden. Summaries. Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin to deteriorate mentally, whilst they hide their mom's decomposing corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus.
Ian McEwan's first novel, The Cement Garden, written in 1978, explores coming-of-age, burgeoning sexuality and the distortions of a fourteen-year-old mind.David Aula and Jimmy Osborne's...
