Saturday is a novel by Ian McEwan. The main narrative takes place over the course of a single day in February of 2003. The protagonist, Henry Perowne, is a neurosurgeon who lives in London. He is married and has two adult children. Over the course of the day, Henry faces personal challenges and moral quandaries as he encounters several highly unexpected events. The novel explores themes of family, morality, compassion, fear, and hope.
Ian McEwan is very much a product of the new British universities, those popularly known as "plate-glass universities" to distinguish them from the older "red-brick universities" at which writers such...
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Ian McEwan first came to public notice in 1975; he was immediately recognized as an important and new voice on the fictional scene. Along with Martin Amis and Julian Barnes, his contemporaries, he is ...
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Ian (Russell) McEwan