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There are books that arrive quietly into your life and then refuse to leave. 'Wintering' is one such book. It does not announce itself as a manual for resilience or healing. It does not shout about ...

Ian McEwan, the Booker Prize-winning author of "Amsterdam" and "Atonement," is back with a new novel, "Lessons" (Knopf), a winding, lifelong journey chronicling love, child sex abuse, and lost ...