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Ian McEwan is set to address climate change and reveal a new dimension s a comic writer in his latest novel Solar, to be published on 18th March by Jonathan Cape.
The book will come out simultaneously with Nan A Talese/Doubleday in the US and Knopf in Canada.
Described as an “engrossing and satirical novel which focuses on climate change”, Solar tells the story of a 50-something Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose career and personal life are both in decline, and who half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative to tackle global warming.
CCV publisher Dan Franklin said that despite its serious theme, Solar is “also very, very funny. It shows a fresh side to Ian McEwan’s work, that he’s a comic writer of genius.”