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| Author | Ian McEwan |
|---|---|
| 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.
- ^ Atonement, archived from the original on 16 May 2008, retrieved 1 July 2013
- ^ "All Time 100 Novels". Time. 16 October 2005. Archived from the original on 16 February 2010.