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Author | Ian McEwan |
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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.
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