Atonement (2001) is a great novel by English Novelist Ian McEwan. It is a story of 13 year old girl, who loves literature and want to be a writer. But her imaginative mind leads her to big mistakes about a series of events which cause to a disaster for her family. Her misleading information to police ruined her sisters and her sisters lovers life.
Although later she wants to consulate herself by finding and atonement. Finally she wrote a novel about her sister and her sister lover to make everything correct in the novel.
In this fascinating novel, McEwan explore the essence of literature and the mixture of reality and imagination. A film with the same name is directed by Joe Wright which was nominated in 80 Oscar for 7 prizes. The other important novels of McEwan is Enduring love (1997), Amsterdam (Man booker prize 1997), Saturday (2003), On Chesil beach, and his latest one Solar(2010) about global warming.
Quotes from Atonement:
"But how to do feelings? All very well to write, She felt sad, or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things."
"A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended."
"It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you."
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