具体描述
From the pen of a master -- the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement -- comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man -- a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day off. He is as at ease here as he is in the operating room. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne's day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary. After an unusual sighting in the early morning sky, he makes his way to his regular squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of marchers filling the streets of London, protesting against the war. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug. To Perowne's professional eye, something appears to be profoundly wrong with this young man, who in turn believes the surgeon has humiliated him -- with savage consequences that will lead Henry Perowne to deploy all his skills to keep his family alive.
作者简介
伊恩·麦克尤恩,(1an McEwan,1948-)是英国当代文坛最优秀、最具影响力的作家之一。毕业于布赖顿的萨塞克斯大学,后在东安吉利大学获得硕士学位。自其第一部短篇小说集《最初的爱情,最后的仪式》获1 975年毛姆奖以来,他多次获得布克奖提名。其作品《阿姆斯特丹》1998年布克奖折桂,《赎罪》获2002年布克奖提名,《星期六》获2005年布克奖提名。主要作品((最初的爱情,最后的仪式》《水泥花园》《床笫之间》《陌生人的慰藉》((时间的孩子》《无罪者》K黑犬》《白日梦者》《爱无可忍》《阿姆斯特丹》《赎罪》《星期六》。
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