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Overview
In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives for ever.
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Editions
London: Jonathan Cape, 1992 (174 p., ISBN: 022403572X).
New York: Nan A. Talese, 1992 (149 p., ISBN: 0385425414).
London: Picador, 1993 (174 p., ISBN: 033032635X).
Toronto: Vintage Books, 1993 (174 p., ISBN: 0394280199).
New York: Bantam Books, 1994 (160 p., ISBN: 0553373676).
Les chiens noirs (French / Trans. by Suzanne V Mayoux). Paris: Gallimard, 1994 (251 p., ISBN: 2070401138).
Cani neri (Italian). Torino: Einaudi, 1995 (181 p., ISBN: 8806135031).
Siyah Kopekler (Turkish). Arion Yayinevi, 1995 (ISBN: 9755710302).
Cerní psi (Czech / Trans. by Vanda Oaklandová). Brno: Jota, 1996 (198 p., ISBN: 8085617846).
Kelavim shehorim (Hebrew / Trans. by Tal Nitsan-Keren). Tel Aviv: 'Am 'oved, 1997 (234 p., ISBN: 965131205X).
London: Vintage, 1998 (174 p., ISBN: 0099277085).
Czarne psy (Polish / Trans. by Marek Fedyszak). Warszawa: Prószynski i S-ka, 1998 (165 p., ISBN: 8371803281).
New York: Doubleday, 1999 (149 p., ISBN: 0385494327).
Melnie suni (Latvia). Izdevnieciba AGB , 1999 (141 p.).
Selected Reviews and Criticism
Morrow, Bradford. 'Hounds of Heaven or Hell', Washington Post Book World , 25 October 1992: 4.
O Briant, Don. 'Fiction Digest: Black Dogs', Atlanta Journal Constitution , 1 November 1992: N11.
Kakutani, Michiko. 'How a Family Story Describes Europe', New York Times , 3 November 1992: C18.
Taylor, Robert. 'Black Dogs: Fine Writing, but Abstract Characters', Boston Globe , 4 November 1992: 54.
Pesetsky, Bette, 'Irreconcilable Passions', New York Times Book Review , 45, 8 November 1992: 7.
Begley, Adam, 'Vicious Visions', Detroit News , 11 November 1992: F3.
Carrington, Tim, 'Bookshelf: Love and Discord in Cold War-Era Europe', Wall Street Journal , 16 November 1992: A8.
Grimes, William. 'Rustic Calm Inspires McEwan Tale of Evil', New York Times , 18 November 1992: C19.
Brent, Frances Padorr, 'Seeing the 'Debased Imagination' That Shapes History', Chicago Tribune , 20 December 1992: 14.
Cosgrove, Benedict, 'The Hidden Forces That Imperil Love', San Francisco Chronicle , 20 December 1992: 3.
Swartley, Ariel, 'Fissures Under the Crust', Los Angeles Times , 20 December 1992: 3.
Fried, Kerry, 'Criminal Elements', New York Review of Books , 40:1/2, 14 January 1993: 36-37.
Kimble, Cary. 'Ghostly Images and Evil Within', Washington Times , 25 April 1993: B6.
Delville, Michel, 'Marsilio Ficino and Political Syncretism in Ian McEwan's Black Dogs ', Notes on Contemporary Literature , 26:3, 1996: 11-12.
Lang, James Martin. "Dialogues With History in Post-War British Fiction." Ph.D. Dissertation, Northwestern University, 1997.
Pedot, Richard. 'Une narration en quête de son sujet: chemin ce l'écriture et écriture du chemin dans Black Dogs de Ian McEwan', Études britanniques contemporaines , 11, 1997: 67-75.
Morrison, Jago, 'Narration and Unease in Ian McEwan's Later Fiction', Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction , 42:3, Spring 2001: 253-268.
Payandeh, Hossein. 'The Universal Pandemic of Violence: A Narratological Reading of Ian McEwan's Black Dogs', The Journal of Humanities of the Islamic Republic of Iran , 2:1, Winter 2004.
Anja Müller-Wood and J. Carter Wood 'Bringing the Past to Heel: History, Identity and Violence in Ian McEwan's Black Dogs', Literature and History , 16:2, (Autumn 2007): 43-56.