While the alternate history is at times clunky and distracting, the comparisons between contemporary British politics and the 1980s are apt. Charlie and his much younger girlfriend, Miranda-a stupendous creation-navigate this new world together, and as Adam struggles with what he is, McEwan explores complex themes of consciousness, being, and self as well as the impact Adam’s existence has on Charlie and Miranda. The narrator, Charlie, lives in south London in the 1980s, and he decides to invest his sizable inheritance in an Adam, one of the first fully conscious androids.
Here he imagines an alternate history in which technology advanced much faster than in real time, and the great polymath Alan Turing lived much longer.
As in McEwan’s previous novel, Nutshell (2016), told from the point of view of a fetus, this much-revered writer again stretches himself.
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