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'Saturday', Kirkus Reviews, 15 January

Cavendish, Lucy. 'Absent Parents, an Angry Ex, and a Curious Obsession with Dead Bodies', Evening Standard, 17 January [Interview].

Lawson, Mark. 'Against the Flow', The Guardian, 22 January 9.

Freeman, John. 'Deft Knife Twist of Literary Anxiety', Toronto Star, 22 January H13 [Profile / Interview; Reprinted as 'Pleasure and Pain', Vancouver Sun (British Columbia), 5 February D15; reprinted as 'Collateral Damage', Ottawa Citizen, 13 February C8; reprinted as 'Collateral Damage', The Calgary Herald (Alberta), 26 February G3; reprinted as 'McEwan Explores Anxiety's Hold on Pleasure', Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 20 March C4; reprinted as 'Conscious Matter', Times-Picayune (New Orleans), 2

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Saturday (novel)

novel by Ian McEwan

Saturday () is a novel by Ian McEwan. It is set in Fitzrovia, central London, on Saturday, 15 February , as a large demonstration is taking place against the United States' invasion of Iraq. The protagonist, Henry Perowne, a year-old neurosurgeon, has planned a series of errands and pleasures, culminating in a family dinner in the evening. As he goes about his day, he ponders the meaning of the protest and the problems that inspired it; however, the day is disrupted by an encounter with a violent, troubled man.

To understand his character's world-view, McEwan spent time with a neurosurgeon. The novel explores one's engagement with the modern world and the meaning of existence in it. The main character, though outwardly successful, still struggles to understand meaning in his life, exploring personal satisfaction in the post-modern, developed world. Though intelligent and well read, Perowne feels he has little influence over political events.

The book, published in February by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom and in April in the United States, was critically and commercially successful. Critics noted McEwan's elegant prose, careful dissection of daily life, and interwoven themes. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for