Atonement… flows through time, like a river
Title: Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Jonathan Cape (2001)
Pages: 371 (hardcover version)
Price: £6.29 (paperback)
Atonement is like a big river: it flows steadily, without shocks. But it flows. So, the only risk is to find yourself at the end of river, close to the sea, unable to understand how it happened.
Atonement is not a thriller. There are no dramatic turns of events, but you just can’t put it down. Ian McEwan’s style is so polite, so elegant that you can’t help thinking like Briony, the protagonist. You can feel her pain, you can taste her tears. And, what is really incredible… it happens naturally.
The story flows across sixty years, touching three moments in the characters’ lives. It starts in 1935, in a country house in England: Briony is preparing a little show to welcome her cousin home from College.
That night, something will change the lives of every person in that house. And we will follow the consequences on everyone’s life, starting from that terrible moment.
The second and third situations…. well, I can’t tell you anything about without giving up all the surprises!
Ian Mc Ewan describes the Second World War, through his characters’ eyes. Not only he tells us what happened, but he also describes how the ones that lived through the war considering it a tragedy felt, comparing their feelings and reactions with those of ones, who were able to find an opportunity in that dramatic event.
I suggest this beautiful book to people who choose slow reads, who want to feel emotions, and to travel through time.
Correlati
Fulvio Luna Romero, nato a Treviso nel 1977, città in cui è toranto a vivere dopo alcuni anni trascorsi tra Bologna e Trieste. Ci ha provato con gli studi, ci ha provato con la musica, ci ha provato con lo sport... da qualche anno ci prova anche con la scrittura. Nel tempo libero, tra la banca e la famiglia, ha pubblicato i suoi romanzi, in stretto stile noir, ambientati a nord est.
La serie Carlo Caccia, con l'omonimo investigatore privato: Carlo Caccia, La parte fredda dell'inferno, Il rumore discreto della nebbia, 5- non uccidere, La sesta corda.
La neonata serie Alex Romanelli, con protagonista un violento criminale: Sarò l'ultimo a morire.
Ha pubblicato anche un romanzo on-line dal titolo 'La ragazza immobile'.
Chitarra o tastiera, penna o computer, scarpe da corsa o Moto Guzzi, l'importante è tenere alto il ritmo narrativo del noir di provincia, del thriller a km zero.
Fulvio Luna Romero was born in Treviso in 1977. After having lived in Bologna and Trieste for some years, he now resides in the city of his birth. He tried to study, he tried to play some music, he tried some sports… now, he’s also trying to write. In the spare time left by his job in a bank and his family, he has published some strictly noir novels set in North-Eastern Italy: the series featuring Carlo Caccia, a private eye: “Carlo Caccia”; “La parte fredda dell’inferno”; “Il rumore discreto della nebbia”; “5- non uccidere”; “La sesta corda”. He recently published the first novel in a new series, featuring Alex Romanelli, a violent criminal: “Sarò l’ultimo a morire”. He also released an on-line novel: “La ragazza immobile”. Guitar or keyboards, pen or PC, running shoes or motorbike (Guzzi): what’s important is to keep up the pace in his “zero-miles” thrillers.
