Tʻoyoil

Saturday

479 pages

Korean language

Published 2007 by Munhak Tongne.

ISBN:
978-89-546-0386-7
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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. 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 …

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Subjects

  • Neurosurgeons -- Fiction.
  • Iraq War, 2003- -- Protest movements -- Fiction.
  • Traffic accidents -- Fiction.
  • Family reunions -- Fiction.
  • London (England) -- Fiction.