Saturday

3, 5*. În mare, autorul povestește minuțios o zi din viața unui neurochirurg, Henry Perowne, o zi de sîmbătă, 15 februarie 2003. Nu contează ce face Henry și, oricum, mai mult vorbește cu sine decît face, ca Leopold Bloom din Ulysses. Perowne este un ins rațional, practic, și cu o profesională neînc......more

Henry Perowne is a busy 48-year-old London neurosurgeon. Saturday, in 2003, two years after the 9/11 attacks and as the invasion of Iraq ears, is a single day in his life. We peek in at every thought that crosses this fellow’s mind over the course and react with him to the events that occur, such as......more

*******Note : SPOILERS ALL OVER THE PLACE!! This review is for people who have read Saturday or people who will never read Saturday!******** Reading Saturday is like running a weird obstacle race. At first it’s all manicured lawns and rhododendrons, and then it’s hideous piles of donkey droppings, an......more

Living the dream in modern urban London is our man, and protagonist, as a neurosurgeon, happily married, with grown up good kids, with great friends, living his fine and more or less contented satisfying upper middle class existence. Ian McEwan stretches this day out in mostly long descriptive parag......more

[Edited 10/10/23] A day in the life of a London neurosurgeon in the mid-1990s. It starts out as a commonplace Saturday but it turns out far from that - drama and trauma invade the day. It begins with the good doctor spotting a plane with an engine on fire and this serves to introduce the theme of pos......more