Author: Ian McEwan
Translator: Jeong-a Han
Publisher: Munhakdongne
528 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated Atonement is his first novel since Amsterdam
took home the prize in 1998. But while Amsterdam was a slim, sleek piece,
Atonement is a more sturdy, more ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to
play, think, and experiment.
We meet 13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to
stage a production of her new drama "The Trials of Arabella" to welcome home her
older, idolized brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the
glamorous Lola and the twin boys Jackson and Pierrot, aren't up to the task, and
directorial ambitions are abandoned as more interesting prospects of
preoccupation come onto the scene. The charlady's son, Robbie Turner, appears to
be forcing Briony's sister Cecilia to strip in the fountain and sends her
obscene letters; Leon has brought home a dim chocolate magnate keen for a war to
promote his new "Army Ammo" chocolate bar; and upstairs, Briony's
migraine-stricken mother Emily keeps tabs on the house from her bed. Soon,
secrets emerge that change the lives of everyone present....
The interwar, upper-middle-class setting of the book's long, masterfully
sustained opening section might recall Virginia Woolf or Henry Green, but as we
move forward--eventually to the turn of the 21st century--the novel's central
concerns emerge, and McEwan's voice becomes clear, even personal. For at heart,
Atonement is about the pleasures, pains, and dangers of writing, and perhaps
even more, about the challenge of controlling what readers make of your writing.
McEwan shouldn't have any doubts about readers of Atonement: this is a
thoughtful, provocative, and at times moving book that will have readers
applauding. --Alan Stewart
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