Ian McEwans 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 moments flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner,
the son of a servant and Cecilias childhood friend. But Brionys 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 crimes repercussions through the
chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable
level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.
Author Biography: Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels The Comfort of Strangers
and Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize, and The Child in Time, winner
of the Whitbread Award, as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and
In Between the Sheets. He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a childrens book, and the libretto for
an oratorio. He lives in London.
