Atonement

“A tour de force.... Every bit as affecting as it is gripping.” —The New York Times“Lush, detailed, vibrantly colored and intense.” —San Francisco Chronicle“A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama.” —John Updike, The New Yorker“Luminous.... Atonement is brilliant.” —Newsweek“No one now writing fiction in the English language surpasses Ian McEwan.” —The Washington Post Book World“McEwan could be the most psychologically astute writer working today, our era’s Jane Austen.” —Esquire