Atonement A Novel

<b><b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A s</b>ymphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from the acclaimed Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author.<br></b><br><b><b>One of the <i>New York Times</i>’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>Best Fiction Book of the Century<br><br>“A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama.” —John Updike, <i>The New Yorker</i></b></b><br><br>On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia’s childhood friend. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives—together with her precocious literary gifts—brings about a crime that will change all their lives. <br><br>As it follows that crime’s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, <i>Atonement </i>engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.