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.

Author Biography
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work,
a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His
novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award;
The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize;
Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell;
and Machines Like Me, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love,
The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.