书名：Atonement赎罪
作者：Ian McEwan
出版社名称：Vintage
出版时间：2007
语种：英文
ISBN：9780099507383
商品尺寸：12.7 x 2.5 x 19.6 cm
包装：平装
页数：384
Atonement《赎罪》是英国当代文学大师代伊恩·麦克尤恩的代表作，他笔下的爱情、战争、阶级、童年、英格兰充满了绚丽、迷人的色彩。这部小说分为3部分，整个故事围绕一个小女孩产生的一个令她悲伤的误会展开的，在这一线索的引导下一系列悲剧事件，从而使故事发展到精彩而出人意料的高潮结局。

同时，由本书改编的同名电影，自2007年作为威尼斯电影节揭幕电影上映以来，好评如潮，并获得“美国金球奖”等多项。

媒体评论：
“伍尔夫的微光笼罩着奥斯丁的情节。”——约翰•厄普代克                                                                                                       

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.

Review
"A magnificent novel"(Independent)

"A superb achievement" (New York Times)

"The best thing he has ever written"(Observer)

"He is this country's unrivalled literary giant...a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel" (Independent on Sunday)

"McEwan's best novel so far, his masterpiece" (Evening Standard)

"A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama" (John Updike)

"Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, Atonement is a richly intricate book... A superb achievement"(Sunday Times)

"Atonement is a masterpiece...it is also an elegy to a time which, however volatile, still had certainties"(The Times)

"An evocative depiction of the dangers of innocence and ignorance in the face of uncomfortable reality." (Herald)

"Brilliantly explores the currents of guilt, shame and anger... Utterly satisfying, complete" (Scotsman)
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……
伊恩·麦克尤恩，本科毕业于布莱顿的苏塞克斯大学，于东英吉利大学取得硕士学位。从1974年开始，麦克尤恩在伦敦定居，次年发表的第1部中短篇集就得到了毛姆文学奖。此后他的创作生涯便与各类奖项的入围名单互相交织，其中《阿姆斯特丹》获布克奖，《时间中的孩子》获惠特布莱德奖，《赎罪》获全美书评人协会奖。近年来，随着麦克尤恩在主流文学圈获得越来越高的评价，他已经被公认英国的“国民作家”，他的名字已经成为当今英语文坛上“奇迹”的同义词。

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 *s.
The play - for which Briony had designed the posters, programmes and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crêpe paper - was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch. When the preparations were complete, she had nothing to do but contemplate her finished draft and wait for the appearance of her cousins from the distant north. There would be time for only one day of rehearsal before her brother arrived. At some moments chilling, at others desperately sad, the play told a tale of the heart whose message, conveyed in a rhyming prologue, was that love which did not build a foundation on good sense was doomed. The reddess passion of the heroine, Arabella, for a wicked foreign count is punished by ill fortune when she contracts cholera during an impetuous dash towards a seaside town with her intended. Deserted by him and nearly everybody else, bed-bound in a garret, she discovers in herself a sense of humour. Fortune presents her a second chance in the form of an impoverished doctor — in fact, a prince in disguise who has elected to work among the needy. Healed by him, Arabella chooses judiciously this time, and is rewarded by reconciliation with her family and a wedding with the medical prince on ‘a windy sunlit day in spring’.
Mrs Talus read the seven pages of The Trials tj Arat’clla in her bedroom, at her dressing table, with the author’s arm around her shoulder the whole while. Briony studied her mother’s face for every trace of shifting emotion, and Emily Tallis obliged with looks of alarm, snickers of glee and, at the end, grateful smiles and wise, affirming nods. She took her daughter in her arms, onto her lap — ah. that hot smooth little body she remembered from its infancy, and still not gone from her, not quite yet — and said that the play was ‘stupendous’, and agreed instantly, murmuring into the tight whorl of the girl’s ear, that this word could be quoted on the poster which was to be on an easel in the entrance hail by the ticket booth.
Briony was hardly to know it then, but this was the project’s highest point of fulfilment. Nothing came near it for satisfaction, all else was dreams and frustration. There were moments in the summer dusk after her light was out, burrowing in the delicious gloom of her canopy bed, when she made her heart thud with luminous, yearning fantasies, little playlets in themselves, every one of which featured Leon. In one, his big, good-natured face buckled in grief as Arabella sank in loneliness and despair. In another, there he was, cocktail in hand at some fashionable city watering hole, overheard boasting to a group of friends: Yes, my younger sister, Bnony Tallis the writer, you must surely have heard of her.