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Saturday by Ian McEwan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Saturday about?

In his triumphant new novel, Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement, follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne–a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children–plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly mother, and cook dinner for his family. But after a minor traffic accident leads to an unsettling confrontation, Perowne must set aside his plans and summon a strength greater than he knew he had in order to preserve the life that is dear to him.From the Trade Paperback edition.From Publishers WeeklyIn the predawn sky on a Saturday morning, London neurosurgeon Henry Perowne sees a plane with a wing afire streaking toward Heathrow. His first thought is terrorism--especially since this is the day of a public demonstration against the pending Iraq war. Eventually, danger to Perowne and his family will come from another source, but the plane, like the balloon in the first scene of Enduring Love, turns out to be a harbinger of a world forever changed. Meanwhile, the reader follows Perowne through his day, mainly via an interior monologue. His cerebral peregrination records

Who reads Saturday?

Author

Ian McEwan

Publisher

Anchor Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385511803

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.62 / 5 (46,302 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13