# The Comfort of Strangers

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- Book: [The Comfort of Strangers](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan/the-comfort-of-strangers) ([The Comfort of Strangers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan/the-comfort-of-strangers.md))
- Authors: [Ian McEwan](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9975-491-6
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2023-08-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession. ‘Haunting and compelling’ The Times ‘No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work’ New York Times