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Nutshell

Ian McEwan

Hardcover | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 41403 Users | 5216 Reviews

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Title	:	Nutshell
Author	:	Ian McEwan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First American
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	September 13th 2016 by Nan A. Talese (first published September 2016)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Mystery. Literary Fiction

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Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things.

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Original Title:	Nutshell
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2016), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2017)

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The narrator is a middle-aged brain trapped inside an unborn baby, itself trapped inside a novel, the events of which the narrator cant see happening because he's in the dark, much like the reader, but nonetheless, he, the narrator, can recount the events once hes heard that theyve happened, and his account is very entertaining even if critical of the crazy plot and unbelievable characters, but unlike the reader, who can abandon the book anytime she wishes, the narrator cant seem to make up his

#2016-aty-reading-challenge-week-49: a book with a great opening line. "So here I am, upside down in a woman. Arms patiently crossed, waiting, waiting, waiting, and wondering who I'm in, what I'm in for." Actually, the entire first paragraph is tremendous--the plot told through the point of view of a fetus. And this is no ordinary fetus. This one has been listening to podcasts through his mother's earbuds and already knows a great deal about world events, politics, environmental concerns, etc.

In my minds eye is a vision of McEwan himself opening the door to detectives investigating a murder, and noticing everything about what they do, how they look, how their voices sound. He might begin to play on their curiosity a bit, making leading statements that drift off into nothingnessand then suddenly revive his tale with a stronger, quicker tone when they query his lead. Oh, you author of fictions, who plays so with our heads.Oh course a real murder is not nearly so amusing as its

[Originally appeared here (with edits): http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/li...] Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions. This wonderfully sapient insight springs somewhere in the middle of this book and almost gives away the rationale behind McEwans choice of protagonist - a fetus.Yes, this 200-odd pages of scheming a murder is seen through the eyes of a fetus from the womb of his mother, a party to

The start of this book feels like McEwan in elder statesman mode, sitting down at his laptop, rolling up his sleeves and saying, Right, out the way, fuckwads, let me show you how it's done. It's so conspicuously brilliant, so controlled and aware and unusual, that although the rest of the book can't quite sustain the ferocity of the first fifty pages, still this rarely felt like it was going to be be getting less than full marks from me.Nutshell is a sly contemporary version of Hamlet, where the

Hamlet in utero: daring idea resonates with Bardly brilliance We all know the basic concept of Hamlet, even if it's been years since we read it in university, or watched Kenneth Branagh's soliloquies (or Mel Gibson, ergh). He's the guy who's fretting constantly, whose fatal flaw is inaction. He can wax poetic like none other, but that's about all he does, bless him.Well, Ian McEwan had the fantastical idea to resurrect dear Hamlet, in the form of a 3rd trimester foetus. Said foetus (who

The start of this book feels like McEwan in elder statesman mode, sitting down at his laptop, rolling up his sleeves and saying, Right, out the way, fuckwads, let me show you how it's done. It's so conspicuously brilliant, so controlled and aware and unusual, that although the rest of the book can't quite sustain the ferocity of the first fifty pages, still this rarely felt like it was going to be be getting less than full marks from me.Nutshell is a sly contemporary version of Hamlet, where the