![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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.īriony Tallis, a 13-year-old English girl with a talent for writing, lives at her family's country estate with her parents Jack and Emily Tallis, who are members of the landed gentry. In 2010, Time magazine named Atonement in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923. Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction. 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. Atonement is a 2001 British metafictional novel written by Ian McEwan. ![]()
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