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Atonement

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 351
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780385721790
  • Characters
  • Briony Tallis, Emily Tallis, Cecilia Tallis, Leon Tallis, Lola Quincey
  • Settings
  • England, France, London, England
  • Genres
  • fiction, romance, classics, historical, war, contemporary, literature, novels
  • Release date
  • 2003