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Amsterdam Ian McEwan has won with his latest novel “Amsterdam” the Booker Price in 1998. Summary: The story opens at the funeral of Molly Lane, a vivid woman, who has been loved and admired by most men knowing her. In her lifetime she has had a couple of lovers, who meet each other again at this sad meeting. Molly has died of an terminal illness, which drove her more and more mad. At last she hasn’t had any control of herself and couldn’t go out of the house anymore. At the funeral there are three of her former lovers Clive Linley, Britain’s most successful composer, Vernon Halliday, editor of the newspaper “The Judge”, Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, whose aim is to become the next prime minister and her latest husband George Lane, a