Description

Ian McEwan s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all of the satisfaction of an excellent narrative and the provocation we've arrived at expect out of this master of Language prose.On a warm summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a minute s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia s childhood buddy. But Briony s incomplete grasp of adult motives as well as her precocious literary gifts leads to a crime that'll change almost all their lives. As it follows that crime s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World-War II and in to the close of the twentieth-century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, by having an ease and authority that mark it as an authentic masterpiece.