Opis: Michael Beard is 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. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage
floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with
her.
When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity
presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career
and save the world from environmental disaster.
Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, SOLAR is a serious and
darkly satirical novel, showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and
complex problem of our time.A story of one man's greed and self-deception, it is a
profound and stylish new work from one of the world's great writers.