description: From the author of the Booker Prize winning Amsterdam comes Atonement, a dark coming-of-age story of 1930s English country life. On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Also watching Cecilia is their housekeepers son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Brionys sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of the day the lives of all three will be forever changed. Robbie and Cecilia will cross a boundary they never before dared to approach, becoming victims of the younger girls scheming imagination. And Briony will commit a dreadful crime, with consequences that will color her entire life. Hauls a defining part of the British literary tradition up to and into the 21st century. The Guardian
language: English
title: Atonement
titlecomplete: Atonement
characters: Jackson Quincey, Emily Tallis, Pierrot Quincey, Briony Tallis, Robbie Turner, Cecilia Tallis, Paul Marshall, Lola Quincey, Leon Tallis
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 507813
places: England, France, United Kingdom, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Exclusive Books Boeke Prize, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize)
category: Internationale Belletristik, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South Asia and Europe, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Publishing Mills