Book Review

Ian McEwan (2010)  'Solar: A Novel'. London and, Nan A Talese and Jonathan Cape, Soft cover, 288 pages, P201.00. ISBN 978-0-224-09050-6.  Available through Exclusive Books.

Ian McEwan's Solar is his 13th book. It may not be one of his best, but the odds are it is his most entertaining, a novel for our times, presented in an outlandish manner, with unusual characters and a combination of preposterous events. How you respond to it will depend on the stance you take on global warming: a hoax, a warning or a calamity for the earth and all life on it. McEwan is a master of verisimilitude - he has even created an appendix with Nils Palsternacka's presentation speech for Michael Beard on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in physics for the Beard-Einstein Conflation. McEwan spent four years researching issues to write this novel.