Atonement: A Novel

ISBN: 038572179X

Author: McEwan, Ian

Condition: New

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author.One of the New York Timess 100 Best Books of the 21st Century A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the CenturyA beautiful and majestic fictional panorama. -John Updike, The New YorkerOn a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moments flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilias childhood friend. But Brionys incomplete grasp of adult motives-together with her precocious literary gifts-brings about a crime that will change all their lives.As it follows that crimes repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.

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