Atonement

中文名：
赎罪
作者：
伊恩·麦克尤恩 Ian McEwan
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This haunting novel, which just failed to win the Booker this year, is at once McEwan at his most closely observed and psychologically penetrating, and his most sweeping and expansive. It is in effect two, or even three, books in one, all masterfully crafted. The first part ushers us into a domestic crisis that becomes a crime story centered around an event that changes the lives of half a dozen people in an upper-middle-class country home on a hot English summer's day in 1935. Young Briony Tallis, a hyperimaginative 13-year-old who sees her older sister, Cecilia, mysteriously involved with their neighbor Robbie Turner, a fellow Cambridge student subsidized by the Tallis family, points a finger at Robbie when her young cousin is assaulted in the grounds that night; on her testimony alone, Robbie is jailed. The second part of the book moves forward five years to focus on Robbie, now freed and part of the British Army that was cornered and eventually evacuated by a fleet of small boats at Dunkirk during the early days of WWII. This is an astonishingly imagined fresco that bares the full anguish of what Britain in later years came to see as a kind of victory. In the third part, Briony becomes a nurse amid wonderfully observed scenes of London as the nation mobilizes. No, she doesn't have Robbie as a patient, but she begins to come to terms with what she has done and offers to make amends to him and Cecilia, now together as lovers. In an ironic epilogue that is yet another coup de the tre, McEwan offers Briony as an elderly novelist today, revisiting her past in fact and fancy and contributing a moving windup to the sustained flight of a deeply novelistic imagination. With each book McEwan ranges wider, and his powers have never been more fully in evidence than here. Author tour. (Mar. 19)Forecast: McEwan's work has been building a strong literary readership, and the brilliantly evoked prewar and wartime scenes here should extend that; expect strong results from handselling to the faithful. The cover photo of a stately English home nicely establishes the novel's atmosphere

　　13岁的布里奥妮·塔利斯拥有十分丰富的想象力，颇有作家天分。一天，来塔利斯家小住的布里奥妮的表姐遭人强暴，先前一直对管家的儿子罗比抱有误解的布里奥妮武断地认定罗比即是罪犯，并出庭指证他，罗比因此入狱。但坚信他无罪的布里奥妮的姐姐塞西莉娅不惜与家人断绝关系，执着地与他相爱。三年半后，罗比出狱，当时正值二战期间，他加入到保卫祖国的战斗中，塞西莉娅随后应征入伍，布里奥妮也成为红十字会医务人员。时间让一切事情的真相渐渐浮出水面。再次直面罗比和塞西莉娅，布里奥妮深深地忏悔，离开时，罗比和塞西莉娅手牵手走在她身后，只是，这一切都不是在现实中……

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