anka.trini reviewed Atonement by Ian McEwan
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4 stars
The writing is impeccable, the story touching albeit moving too slowly sometimes. It's a great read even if you already know the film adaption.
Paperback, 368 pages
English language
Published March 6, 2003 by Anchor Books.
Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.
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The writing is impeccable, the story touching albeit moving too slowly sometimes. It's a great read even if you already know the film adaption.
Often too stylistically written for its own good, but a worthwhile read.
Damn, this is a good book, paced and nuanced, subtle and for a little while overt.
Almost too good. At a point in the book I had to put it aside for a few days not to be crushed by it. Its characters were living with me even weeks after I finished reading it.