On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony
Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and
plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house.
Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a
childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently
graduated from Cambridge.
By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been
changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary
they had never before dared to approach and will have become
victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. And Briony will
have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her
entire life.
In each of his novels Ian McEwan has brilliantly drawn his reader
into the intimate lives and situations of his characters. But never
before has he worked with so large a canvas: In "Atonement "he
takes the reader from a manor house in England in 1935 to the
retreat from Dunkirk in 1941; from the London's World War II
military hospitals to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999.
"Atonement" is Ian McEwan's finest achievement. Brilliant and
utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war,
England and class, the novel is at its center a profound-and
profoundly moving-exploration of shame and forgiveness and the
difficulty of absolution.
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