by Ian McEwan · RANDOM HOUSE UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099469681
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«Saturday» is the contemporary fiction novel by Ian McEwan, published by Random House UK in paperback (304 pages, in English).
In February 2003, Henry Perowne, a London neurosurgeon, wakes before dawn and sees a burning plane crossing the sky. That Saturday, his journey among thousands of anti-Iraq-war protesters, a squash game and a minor car accident bring him face to face with Baxter, a violent young man whose intrusion threatens his family's peace.
Originally published in 2005; this English edition is from 2006. The work won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2005.
For readers of literary fiction who appreciate political and psychological novels set in post-9/11 London.
Ian Russell McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 out of "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
