Atonement: A Novel

National Bestseller Ian McEwanrs"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 a momentrs"s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Ceciliars"s childhood friend. But Brionyrs" s incomplete grasp of adult motivestogether with her precocious literary giftsbrings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crimers"s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century,Atonementengages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.

Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels<i> </i><b>The Comfort of Strangers</b><i> </i>and <b>Black Dogs</b><i>, </i>both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, <b>Amsterdam</b><i>, </i>winner of the Booker Prize,<i> </i>and <b>The Child in Time</b><i>, </i>winner of the Whitbread Award, as well as the story collections <b>First Love, Last Rites</b><i>, </i>winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and <b>In Between the Sheets</b><i>. </i>He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a children’s book, and the libretto for an oratorio. He lives in London.