Atonement

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On the hottest day of summer in 1934, Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is her childhood friend, Robbie Turner. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever: Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed an unimagined boundary, and Briony will have committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

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'A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama'John Updike


On the hottest day of summer in 1934, Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is her childhood friend, Robbie Turner. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever: Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed an unimagined boundary, and Briony will have committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.


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作者簡介：

Ian McEwan's last novel, Amsterdam, won the 1998 Booker Prize. He lives in Oxford.

• 作者： McEwan、 Ian
• 出版社： Vintage UK 出版日期：2011-08-04 ISBN/ISSN：9780099563051
• 語言：英文 裝訂方式：平裝 頁數：384頁
• 類別： 中文書> 世界文學> 英美文學