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Awards
Shortlisted for WHSmith Book Awards (Fiction) 2002.Winner of Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book Eurasia 2002.
Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 2001.
Shortlisted for Whitbread Prize (Novel) 2001.
Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 2002.
Shortlisted for Whitbread Prize (Fiction) 2001.
Shortlisted for Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 2001.
Shortlisted for WH Smith Book Awards (Fiction) 2002.
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Description
On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions" Atonement" follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.
