Ian McEwan

Atonement

• Gebundenes Buch

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. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Everyman's Library CLASSICS
• Verlag: Everyman
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 136mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781841593609
• ISBN-10: 1841593605
• Artikelnr.: 40323764

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.

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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