(VIDEO) McEwan Reads from SOLAR & Answers Questions

McEwan's U.S. Tour Dates

Ian McEwan is scheduled to appear at four U.S. events to promote his new novel Solar. Please be sure to confirm dates and ticketing information directly with the event organizers.

April 6, 8:00 pm
92nd St. Y and Unterberg Poetry Center
1395 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10128

April 7, 7:30 pm
PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Folger Exhibition Hall
201 East Capitol St.
SE Washington, DC 20003

April 12, 8:00 pm
Aratani/Japan America Theatre
244 S. San Pedro St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

April 13, 8:00 pm
City Arts and Lectures
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 9410

McEwan's New Novel -- Solar

Random House is delighted to announce the publication of a new novel by Ian McEwan, Solar.

Solar is an engrossing and satirical novel which focuses on climate change and will be published on 18 March 2010. This story – of one man's ambitions and self-deceptions – is a stylish new work by one of the word's greatest living writers.

Michael Beard is in his late fifties; bald, overweight, unprepossessing – a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. An inveterate philanderer, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. When Beard's professional and personal worlds are entwined in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself, a chance for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster.

Dan Franklin, Publisher, comments: 'Solar is a novel about one of the most serious threats to our world – global warming – but is also very, very funny. It shows a fresh side to Ian McEwan’s work, that he’s a comic writer of genius.'