Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan 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 Kafkäs most famous work to engage with a world turned on its head.
