Atonement (novel)

Atonement
	Atonement cover
Author	Ian McEwan
Cover artist	Chris Frazer Smith
Language	English
Publisher	Jonathan Cape
Publication date	2001
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	371 pp
ISBN	0-224-06252-2 (first edition)
OCLC	47231087

Atonement is a 2001 British metafictional novel written by Ian McEwan. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing.

Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction.^[1] In 2010, Time magazine named Atonement in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.^[2]

In 2007, the book was adapted into a BAFTA and Academy Award-winning film of the same title, starring Saoirse Ronan, James McAvoy, and Keira Knightley, and directed by Joe Wright.

^ Atonement, archived from the original on 16 May 2008, retrieved 1 July 2013
^ "All Time 100 Novels". Time. 16 October 2005. Archived from the original on 16 February 2010.

[1] Atonement, archived from the original on 16 May 2008, retrieved 1 July 2013

[2] "All Time 100 Novels". Time. 16 October 2005. Archived from the original on 16 February 2010.

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