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That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic 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.
With trademark intelligence, insight and scabrous humour, Ian McEwan pays tribute to Franz Kafka’s most famous work to engage with a world turned on its head.
109 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 27, 2019


„Prin urmare, vom mări impozitele pentru cei cu salarii mici și le vom micșora pentru cei bogați... Vom spori veniturile publice prin angajarea a încă douăzeci de mii de polițiști, cincizeci de mii de asistente medicale, cincisprezece mii de doctori și două sute de mii de gunoieri, ca să asigurăm colectarea zilnică” (p.62).
We understand and love the dark ... In the past we have lived through great adversity, including the construction of sewers, the repulsive taste for clean water. But we have fought back ... When that peculiar madness, Reversalism, makes the general human population poorer, which it must, we are bound to thrive again ...
As you have discovered, it is not easy to be Homo Sapiens. Their desires are so often in contention with their intelligence.