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A young girl’s imagination runs riot with far-reaching and devastating consequences, in Ian McEwan’s masterpiece of metafiction.On a hot day in the summer of 1934, 13-year-old Briony sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching is Cecilia’s friend from childhood, Robbie Turner. 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 not imagined at its start. Briony will have committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone."Ian McEwan's remarkable new novel Atonement is a love story, a war story and a story about the destructive powers of the imagination...It is, in short, a tour de force ... The novel, supposedly a narrative constructed by one of the characters, stands as a sophisticated rumination on the hazards of fantasy and the chasm between reality and art ... There is nothing self-conscious or mannered about Mr McEwan's writing. Indeed Atonement emerges as the author's most deeply felt novel yet – a novel that takes the glittering narrative pyrotechnics perfected in his last book, Am

Who reads Atonement : a Novel?

Author

Ian McEwan; Alexandria Library (Alexandria, Va.)

Publisher

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400075553

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.88 / 5 (351,442 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14