Atonement

Informationen zum Autor Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites , won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time , which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden ; Enduring Love ; Amsterdam , which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement ; Saturday ; On Chesil Beach ; Solar ; Sweet Tooth ; The Children Act ; Nutshell ; Machines Like Me ; and Lessons . Atonement , Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen. Klappentext On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. Zusammenfassung On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Ian McEwan
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.08.2007
• EAN: 9780099507383
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950738-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, Historical romance, FICTION / Literary, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, 20th Century, Narrative theme: Social issues, Classic fiction, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)