Atonement
Books | Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War II
3.7
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Ian McEwan
From the Booker Prize winning author of Amsterdam, a brilliant new novel. On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, son of the Tallis’s cleaning lady, whose education has been subsidized by Cecilia’s and Briony’s father, and who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By day's end, their lives will be changed – irrevocably. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not imagined at its start. And Briony will have witnessed mysteries, seen an unspeakable word, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone… Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of love and war and class and childhood and England, An Atonement is a profound – and profoundly moving – exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and of the possibility of absolution.
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Author
Ian McEwan
Pages
368
Publisher
Knopf Canada
Published Date
2009-03-19
ISBN
0307371492 9780307371492
Ratings
Google: 4
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"Heartbreaking "
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Christin Stanford
"Cried at the end because of how sentimental the ending was. Maybe I need to be older to read this, maybe I’m just not the right audience, but I find that the story really drags in between. I’m not asking for immediate gratification, especially from a character-driven novel such as this, but I find that some parts are especially overdone.<br/><br/>McEwan’s writing and works are really meant for a specific kind of audience—one that is willing to undergo longevity and slow-paced emotionally-centred work."
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