Atonement - McEwan, Ian
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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.

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Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen 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; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
Ian McEwan
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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