Publisher Description
A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other: here is Ian McEwan's Brexit-era take on Kafka's Metamorphosis, centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England. An Anchor Original. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain--and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way; not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. In this bitingly funny Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humor a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head.
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About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the author of more than a dozen books, including either New York Times bestsellers. His novel Amsterdam won the 1998 Book Prize; Atonement, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; and The Child in Time won the Whitbread Award. His story collection, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award.
About Bill Nighy
Bill
Nighy is a multi-award-winning actor who has appeared in
many TV dramas, including State of Play,
The Girl in the Café, and Page Eight, for which he received a
Golden Globe Best Actor nomination. He won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA for
his role as Billy Mack in Love Actually,
while his other films include Pirates of
the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and the smash hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.