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Nan A. Talese
March 2005
Featuring: Henry Perowne
304 pages
ISBN: 0385511809
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Contemporary
Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in
February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man — a
successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper
lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children.
Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central
London on this, his day off. He is as at ease here as he is
in the operating room. Outside the hospital, the world is
not so easy or predictable. There is an impending war
against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering
pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two
years before. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne’s day moves
through the ordinary to the extraordinary. After an unusual
sighting in the early morning sky, he makes his way to his
regular squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid
the hundreds of thousands of marchers filling the streets
of London, protesting against the war. A minor accident in
his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time
thug. To Perowne’s professional eye, something appears to
be profoundly wrong with this young man, who in turn
believes the surgeon has humiliated him — with savage
consequences that will lead Henry Perowne to deploy all his
skills to keep his family alive.
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