Atonement
About this book
Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction 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. In 2010, Time magazine named Atonement in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.
Subjects
- adolescents
- atonement
- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=2002
- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- country life
- domestic fiction
- dunkirk, battle of, dunkerque, france, 1940
- dunkirk evacuation
- england, fiction
- english literature
- ex-convicts
- false testimony
- family
- fiction
- fictional works
- fictional works [publication type]
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, general
- fiction / historical
- fiction / literary
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, romance, historical, general
- fiction / sagas
- girls
- guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
- guilt
- historical fiction
- historical romance
- history
- judicial error
- large type books
- life change events
- national book critics circle award winner
- open_syllabus_project
- psychological fiction
- romans
- romans, nouvelles
- sisters
- sisters, fiction
- sœurs
- teenage girls
- teenagers
- world war, 1939-1945