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More info A graceful and bold interpretation of Shakespeare’s «Hamlet» from one of the best British writers of our time. Here is a timely book, you can’t imagine it on purpose: amid yet another debate about the prohibition of abortion, British veteran McEwan is releasing a novel written from the perspective of an embryo. Is the fetus a person? Oh yeah. On the fourth page, he confesses his love for «Ulysses». Stanislav Zelvensky, «Afisha» «In the Shell» is a masterfully told story about betrayal and murder. How does the embryo see the world? Obviously not at all like us. He has a different morality, different views, a different approach to things. He creates ten new commandments. He already feels the world. He longs for the new and is ready to explore the world (with limited opportunities). One major obstacle stands in his way: he cannot do anything. He can only observe. «In the Shell» is a novel that first of all evokes allusions to «Hamlet». But the modern classic of British literature has gone beyond his great predecessor. This is a daring game on the field of the great classic. Annotation «In the Shell» is a masterfully told story of betrayal and murder. Trudy betrayed her husband John — exchanged a sophisticated intellectual poet for his down-to-earth brother Claude. But adultery is not her worst act. Together with Claude, Trudy is going to poison her husband. Does this remind you of anything? Trudy — Gertrude, Claude — Claudius … Well, of course: McEwan wrote a novel that primarily evokes allusions to «Hamlet». But the modern classic of British literature has gone beyond his great predecessor. The narrator is John and Trudy’s unborn child, nine months old from conception. He watches what is happening and knows that he will come to this world as an orphan and that his mother and uncle are murderers.
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