Résumé
Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies. ‘A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended’ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, 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 too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever, as Briony commits a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. 'The best thing he has ever written' Observer**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Quatrième de couverture
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, 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 too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever, as Briony commits a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.Biographie de l'auteurIan McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories,First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels includeThe 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; andMachines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller.Atonement,Enduring Love, The Children Act andOn Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
À propos de l'auteur
McEwan, Ian
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories,First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels includeThe 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; andMachines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller.Atonement,Enduring Love, The Children Act andOn Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
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- Titre : Atonement: Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies.
- Auteur : McEwan, Ian
- Langue : Anglais
- Format : Broché
- Nombre de pages : 384
- Genre : Historical Fiction
- Date de publication : 09-03-2005
- Édition : Vintage
- Poids : 0.355 kg
- Dimensions : 12.8999742 x 2.8999941999999996 x 19.6999606 cm
- ISBN-10 : 0099429799
- ISBN-13 : 9780099429791
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