by Ian McEwan · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099549024
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«Solar» is Ian McEwan's satirical novel, published by Random House in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Michael Beard, a Nobel-winning physicist whose best days are behind him, is an inveterate womaniser watching his fifth marriage fall apart: now it is his wife who is unfaithful, and he is still in love with her. An absurd accident crosses his personal and professional life and gives him the chance to sort out his marital mess, relaunch his career and save the planet from environmental disaster. The action moves between the Arctic Circle and the deserts of New Mexico, portraying the greed and self-deception of a man faced with the most pressing problem of our time.
Novel in English by British author Ian McEwan, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. Publisher: Vintage / Random House. Paperback edition of 304 pages, published in 2011.
For readers of literary fiction who appreciate satire, black humour and stories featuring morally ambiguous characters.
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".
