num_pages: 351
description: Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: Atonement
titlecomplete: Atonement
characters: Cecilia Tallis, Pierrot Quincey, Robbie Turner, Leon Tallis, Paul Marshall, Jackson Quincey, Lola Quincey, Emily Tallis, Briony Tallis
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, War, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 507668
places: England, London, England, United Kingdom, France
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: Anchor / Random House