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Atonement

Ian McEwan · 2001

351 pages

On one summer day in 1935, a girl misreads what she sees and tells a lie that destroys two lives. Years later, as war looms, she tries to understand and atone for what she did. A novel about memory, guilt and the stories we tell to survive.

Tropes

Unreliable Narrator, Betrayal, Star-Crossed Lovers, War Fiction, Coming of Age, Twist Ending

Content warnings: sexual violence

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