Ian McEwan

Broschiertes Buch

Atonement

Winner of the Deutschen Bücherpreis, Kategorie Internationale Belletristik 2003 and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Fiction 2002

Beschreibung

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 live of all three have been changed for ever.

Autor

Ian McEwan

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Produktdetails

• Cornelsen Senior English Library
• Verlag: Petersen, Hamburg; Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 718931
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 188mm x 127mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780099429791
• ISBN-10: 0099429799
• Artikelnr.: 10404677

Rezensionen

"Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity. Atonement is a richly intricate book ... A superb achievement" (Sunday Times)

"He is this country`s unrivalled literary giant ... a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel" (Independent on Sunday)

"The best thing he has ever written" (Observer)

"McEwan`s best novel so far, his masterpiece" (Evening Standard)

He is this country's unrivalled literary giant...a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel Independent on Sunday