Atonement
Subtitle: A Novel
By: Ian McEwan
Edition: First Anchor Books Edition (11)
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2003-03
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780385721790
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Country life; Guilt; Teenage girls; Sisters; Ex-convicts; Fiction
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.

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