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Ian McEwan - Saturday, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

Saturday

Av Ian McEwan

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'Dazzling... Profound and urgent' Observer'A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday' Financial TimesSaturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the London sky. Over the course of the following day, unease gathers about Perowne, as he moves amongst hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors in the post-9/11 streets.A minor car accident brings him into confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive man, who to Perowne's professional eye appears to be profoundly unwell. But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home that Henry's earlier fears seem about to be realised...
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2006-01-05
  • Mått: 130 x 196 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 238 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 288
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099469681
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of BookScan Gold Awards 2007
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Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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Written with superb exactness, complex, suspenseful and humane, this novel reinforces his status as the supreme novelist of his generation

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