Expiación

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Paperback, 435 pages

Spanish language

Published 2017 by Anagrama.

ISBN:
978-84-339-6005-4
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OCLC Number:
1023657627

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Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction 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. In 2010, Time magazine named Atonement in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.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.

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reviewed Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Weight of a Single Moment

As those who follow this account know well, I'm a sucker for beautiful writing and willing to excuse almost anything else. This book has its moments, and it is a beautifully crafted story, but for my taste, it's just too slow and too quiet. I get what Ian McEwan was trying to do; still, I found it hard to maintain interest. What I did love was the introspection and how the characters are defined by a single pivotal moment and everything that follows. In hindsight, we all have moments like that - turning points that define how we understand our lives.