{"product_id":"atonement-9780385721790","title":"Atonement","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A s\u003c\/b\u003eymphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia's childhood friend. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives--together with her precocious literary gifts--brings about a crime that will change all their lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs it follows that crime's repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, \u003ci\u003eAtonement \u003c\/i\u003eengages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIAN MCEWAN\u003c\/b\u003e is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50569197388050,"sku":"9780385721790","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e046f361-d3c1-4db9-b91d-e378c7368787.jpg?v=1731954940","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/atonement-9780385721790","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}