So far, so… mildly amusing? McEwan’s portrayal of politicians as swindling vermin is, uh, accurate? It’s fine I guess but not that cutting. ![]() The roaches dig in their heels, determined to deliver Reversalism for the people. There is the small complication of dealing with cross-border transactions as a Reversalist country in a Clockwise world, but even that can be exploited to drum up patriotic fervour. The reverse-flow applies to governments and businesses too. In the Reversalist system, employees pay to work, and are compensated for consuming. If you loved your country and its people, you should upend the existing order.” ”In a brilliant coup, the Reversalist press managed to present their cause as a patriotic duty and a promise of national revival and purification: everything that was wrong with the country, including inequalities of wealth and opportunity, the north–south divide and stagnating wages, was caused by the direction of financial flow. The roaches take the opportunity to implement their fiendish plot: Reversalism, a scheme to reverse the flow of funds in the economic system. The PM and his cabinet ministers have been bodyswapped with cockroaches. Supposedly a Brexit satire, The Cockroach is well-written, but ultimately thin stuff. In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday and his novel On Chesil Beach was named Galaxy Book of the Year at the 2008 British Book Awards where McEwan was also named Reader's Digest Author of the Year. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). ![]() He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
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