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Description
Ian McEwan s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose. On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses... read more
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Memorable Quotes
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“"Aquele momento fora imaginado e desejado por tanto tempo que agora não poderia estar à altura das expectativas". "Quando ela relatava um resultado feliz, aquele momento em que a batalha terminava e a mãe exausta recebia nos braços seu filho pela primeira vez, contemplando em êxtase o rostinho novo, era um prenúncio tácito do futuro de Ceclilia, o futuro que ela compartilharia com ele, que dava às suas cartas aquele poder simples, embora na verdade ele pensasse menos em nascimento que em concepção".”
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“"No one in her presence had ever referred to the word's existence and what was more, no one, not even her mother, had ever referred to the existence of that part of her which -Briony was certain- the word referred. She had no doubt that that was what it was. The context helped, but more than that, the word was at one with its meaning and was almost onomatopoeic. The smooth-hollowed, partly enclosed forms of its first three letters were as clear as a set of anatomical drawings. Three figures huddling at the foot of the cross. That the word had been written by a man confessing to an image in his mind, confiding a lonely preoccupation, disgusted her profoundly."”
Briony Tallis
First Sentence
The play-for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper-was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch.
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Authors & Contributors
- Ian McEwan (Author)
Awards
- Man Booker Prize (Finalist, 2001: Fiction)
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