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Written by Atonement author Ian McEwan, Amsterdam (158 pages) follows two old friends who meet at a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane — a woman whom they had both romanced — and make a pact that will have dire consequences for them both, as well as for another one of Molly's former lovers, a man who is favored to be the next prime minister.