Monday, October 10, 2016

Nutshell

Nutshell by Ian McEwan  197 pp.

Using what has to be the most unusual narrator in literature, an eight month old fetus, McEwan tells the story of a murder plot and its aftermath. The pregnant Trudy has betrayed her husband, John with John's brother Claude. Trudy and Claude hatch a murder plot to eliminate John from the picture. The unborn child is the unwilling witness to their plotting and struggles to find a way to stop them, or at least insure they don't get away with their crime without punishment. The fetus does not speak as a child, but as a literate and worldly adult which makes the narration all the more intriguing. Beautifully written with a well crafted plot.

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