Solar
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Publisher Description
Nobelov nagrajenec iz fizike Michael Beard »pripada tistemu razredu moških – ne pretirano simpatičnih, pogosto plešastih, majhnih, debelih, bistrih – ki pa začuda privlačijo določeno vrsto lepih žensk«. Njegov peti zakon se končuje v agoniji neznosnega skupnega življenja pod isto streho z maščevalno ženo, ki prešuštvuje Beardu pred očmi. Hkrati tudi že dolgo ne dobi nobene pametne fizikalne ideje in njegov projekt vetrnih turbin, s katerimi naj bi ceneje pridobivali elektriko, golta vedno več državnega denarja. Zato Beard olajšano odpotuje na Grenlandijo, da bi se na lastne oči prepričal o globalnem segrevanju, po vrnitvi pa dobi v roke zapiske nesrečno preminulega kolega. Ti v njem porodijo zamisel o novi obliki pridobivanja obnovljive energije in s tem tudi zaslužka …
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Booker Prize winner McEwan (On Chesil Beach; Atonement) once again deploys domestic strife to examine the currents of worldwide change. This time, McEwan shoots for the sun, with the promise of solar energy gradually legitimizing itself in the mind of Nobel Prize winning physicist Michael Beard. While Bush v. Gore drags on across the Atlantic and Beard's fifth marriage dissolves in an adulterous haze, the waning laureate rides his reputation to a cushy position at a U.K. climate research center, where he is generally disdainful of his younger colleagues. Then, following an epiphany of sorts, Beard pins the accidental death of a rival scientist on his wife's lover and steals the other man's research. By 2009, Beard is in New Mexico, riding high on ill-gotten funding and patents and within sight of a curious redemption. Beard is a fascinatingly repulsive protagonist, but he can't sustain a novel broken up by fast-forwards (all of which require tedious backstories) and a stream of overwritten courtships. The scientific material is absorbing, but the interpersonal portions are much less so troublesome, since McEwan seems to prefer the latter making for an inconsistent novel that one finishes feeling unpleasantly glacial.
