Book Description

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.

Book Dimension

length: (cm)19.7 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.8

在当今英国文坛，写严肃小说又好又叫座的，当数伊恩·麦克尤恩，他也被认为是英国文坛当前最具影响力的作家之一。麦克尤恩的作品多为短篇小说，内容大都离奇古怪、荒诞不经，有“黑色喜剧”之称。他的文字简洁而且优雅，他对人的生存状态的洞察和深挖使他笔下经常是“不洁”的题材具有真正的人性深度。自他的第一本短篇小说集《最初的爱情和最后的仪式》获得1975年的毛姆奖以来，他四次获得布克奖提名，并最终在1998年以《阿姆斯特丹》折桂。《赎罪》同样获得2001年的布克奖提名，虽然最终未能获奖，但评论却给予了较之《阿姆斯特丹》更多更动听的溢美之词，认为比它更丰满，更好读，既有讨好读者的动人情节，喜剧因素，又不乏冷色调，让人爱不释手。2007年，麦克尤恩凭借《切瑟尔海滩上》再次入围英国布克奖。