Atonement

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		Atonement
		Atonement

基本信息·出版社：Vintage; New Ed edition
·页码：384 页
·出版日期：2007年08月
·ISBN：0099507382
·条形码：9780099507383
·版本：2007-08-09
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：赎罪

内容简介 Book Description
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)19.7 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.8
作者简介 Ian McEwan has written two collections of short stories and ten novels, including the award winning Saturday. He won the 1998 Booker Prize for his novel Amsterdam. He has also written several film scripts.
媒体推荐 Customer Reviews
1. Ian McEwan's masterpiece, 28 Sep 2007
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　By Allan Gordon "allangordon" (Erskine, Scotland)
I bought my copy of Atonement around five years ago and I never seemed to get around to reading it, even though I am a big fan of Ian McEwan's work. I knew that the release of the film version is imminent, so I decided to take it with me on holiday, so that I could set myself the goal of reading it before the film comes out. When I started it I could not understand why it had taken me the best part of five years to get around to reading it. I was totally engrossed by every aspect of the book; it is very atmospheric, it has a strong narrative drive, the characters are brilliantly drawn and you care what happens to the main protagonist.

In the hot summer of 1935 thirteen year old Briony Tallis is trying to stage a play to welcome her older brother home, but her cousins are proving not to be up to the task. As she sulks in her room she notices that her sister Cecilia has stripped her clothes off and jumped into a fountain, apparently at the behest of the cleaning lady's son Robbie. Her vivid imagination transforms this scene into something very different, and when that night something truly terrible does happen, she completely misconstrues it, with consequences that will dramatically change the lives of Cecilia, Robbie and herself. McEwan brilliantly captures how a child's mind works and the ways in which a naive young girl can totally misunderstand adult passions.

The second part of the book is set during World War 2 and Robbie is desperately trying to get to Dunkirk. Cecilia and Briony have both become nurses and are dealing with the casualties of the conflict. McEwan's writing is consistently superb throughout this book, but the war scenes are incredible, being totally pervaded by a sense of danger. You have a real sense of the terror and confusion that the British forces must have experienced as they retreated from France. There is an intense immediacy to the writing in the war scenes and it is hard to believe that McEwan has no direct personal experience of being in a war zone. The horrors of war are graphically brought home, as well as the capacity of the soldiers to exhibit compassion or violence.

All of the characters are still living with the repercussions of Briony's actions from that sultry day of 1945. How will Briony atone for her crime and the promising lives that she has destroyed? She is desperate to re-establish conflict with her estranged sister and make amends to both her and Robbie. We see her character grow, develop and mature and the manner in which she attempts to redeem her earlier actions is revealed in an extraordinary twist. The whole novel is a testimony to the power of writing and the effect it can have upon our lives. If you haven't already read it, read it now because it is one of the best books written in the past decade, and is easily the best novel to come from the pen of England's finest living writer.

2. Ian McEwan's best, 16 Sep 2007
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　By Suzie (Scotland, UK)
In my view this is Ian McEwan's best novel to date (although I haven't yet read 'On Chesil Beach), a brilliant exploration of love and lies, and the irreparable damage that results from an imaginative young girl's misinterpretation of events she does not understand, of a haunting guilt and a desire to atone for mistakes of the past.

Some reviewers found the first part slow - 'a bit of a slog' as one reviewer put it - but I loved it. It's where we meet the characters and get to know them, how they live and how they interact with each other. It makes the remainder of the book all the more striking for the contrast drawn between their lives before and after the fateful evening (to say more would spoil the story).

If anything, it was in the parts set in France and the hospital where I found certain passages rather long and disconnected from the point of the story. I can see why the author included them, but wonder whether such detail was warranted.

If you're seeking an exciting, fast-moving story you will probably not enjoy this book. But for anyone interested in an the psychological aspects of human relationships, in beautifully written prose, it is a treat in store.

3. What a fantastic book!, 15 Sep 2007
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　By Ms. S. L. Denning "beanie121" (London, England)

I have just this second finished the book and had to come straight on here and express my feelings for it. What a rollacoaster of emotions. The first half of the book is very slow moving but sets the tale for what lies ahead. After that theres no turning back. The passion, the lies, the love two people have for one another and the imagination of a young girls mind is written with such detail you cant help but picture yourself in the scene with them. I have not read a book ive enjoyed so much in a long time and i hope the film can live up to it. The ending was both heart breaking and beautifully written. Your left feeling sad but satisfied. Please give this book a try. Im not a great lover of things like this but im so glad i picked it up. Loved every moment of it.

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