Ian McEwan. — one of the authors of the “governing triumvirate” of contemporary British prose (along with Julian Barnes and Martin Amis), and the winner of the Booker Prize for the novel “Amsterdam.”
“Atonement” is an astonishing “chronicle of lost time,” written by a teenage girl who, in her own peculiar and cruel—almost childlike—way, reevaluates and reinterprets events of “adult” life. Having witnessed a rape, she frames it in her own way and sets in motion a chain of fateful events that will “echo” in the most unexpected manner many, many years later…
In 2007, a film adaptation of the novel was released (dir. Joe Wright; starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy). The film was presented at the Venice Film Festival, won two Golden Globe awards, and received one nomination out of seven for the Oscars.