What a stunningly successful tour de force. Ian McEwan, no stranger, God knows, to successes with his brains and language, this time assumes not only the persona but the knowledge of a brilliant neurosurgeon, who makes scientific interpretations of the responses of his and others' nervous systems to sometimes horrendous events in a single day.Saturday follows a day in the life of a London neurosurgeon amidst the first English protests of the Iraq war.
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