Tʻoyoil
Subtitle: Saturday
By: Iŏn Maekʻyuŏn changpʻyŏn sosŏl ; Yi Min-a omgim.
Contributors: Yi, Min-a.
Edition: Chʻopʻan
Series: Munhak Tongne segye munhak
Publisher: Munhak Tongne
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Kyŏnggi-do Pʻaju-si
Language: kor
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9788954603867
Subjects: Neurosurgeons -- Fiction.; Iraq War, 2003- -- Protest movements -- Fiction.; Traffic accidents -- Fiction.; Family reunions -- Fiction.; London (England) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Saturday
Work titles: Saturday.
Description: Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man--a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day off. He is as at ease here as he is in the operating room. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne's day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary. After an unusual sighting in the early morning sky, he makes his way to his regular squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of marchers filling the streets of London, protesting against the war. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug. To Perowne's professional eye, something appears to be profoundly wrong with this young man, who in turn believes the surgeon has humiliated him--with savage consequences that will lead Henry Perowne to deploy all his skills to keep his family alive.
Notes: Translation of: Saturday.