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Book Review of Atonement

Atonement
Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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One summer day in 1935, thirteen year old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, son of a servant. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime whose repercussions Atonment follows through the chaos and carnage of WWII and into the close of the twentith century.