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Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and June cannot reconcile, Jeremy undertakes writing Junes memoirs, only to be led back again and again to one terrifying encouner forty years earliera moment that, for June, was as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremys own time. In a finely crafted, compelling examination of evil and grace, Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civiliations darkest moodsits black dogswith the tensions that both create love and destroy it.