Atonement A Novel

Ian McEwan

eBook - 2003

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 Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama.” —John Updike, The New YorkerOn a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia’s childhood friend. But Briony’s 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 crime’s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the... more