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'THE SUPREME NOVELIST OF HIS GENERATION' , SUNDAY TIMES 'Dazzling...The author's mature attention illuminates equally everything it falls on...Profound and urgent' OBSERVER 'A brilliant növel...It is McEwan writing on absohite top form' DAILY MAIL Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window and fiiled with a growing unease. As he looks out at the night sky he is troübled by the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, a gatheriiíg pessimism since 9/11, and a féar that his city and his happy family life are under threat. Later, as Perowne makes his way through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors, a minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to... Tovább

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'THE SUPREME NOVELIST OF HIS GENERATION' , SUNDAY TIMES 'Dazzling...The author's mature attention illuminates equally everything it falls on...Profound and urgent' OBSERVER 'A brilliant növel...It is McEwan writing on absohite top form' DAILY MAIL Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window and fiiled with a growing unease. As he looks out at the night sky he is troübled by the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, a gatheriiíg pessimism since 9/11, and a féar that his city and his happy family life are under threat. Later, as Perowne makes his way through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors, a minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong widi him. But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance as the Perowne family gathers for a reunion that Henry's earfier fears seem about to be realised. 4He remains at the top of his game - assured, accomplished and ambitious' ^1W<WW|; ' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Richly laden...McEwaa.pulls out all the stops...A rich book, sensuous and thoughtful...McEwan has found in Saturday the right form to showcase his dazzling talents' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH great morál maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness orms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday.. .Artistically, iMk É morally and politically, he excels' ; Vissza