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Ian McEwan · 2001
On a summer day in 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses events between her sister Cecilia and childhood friend Robbie Turner, then commits a crime through her imagination that will haunt her for life. A literary novel exploring memory, guilt, and the power of storytelling.
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What this book knows
A false accusation made in childhood warps three lives, and the novelist who caused it can only atone through fiction itself.
trauma-and-survival
He looked so huge and wild, and Cecilia with her bare shoulders so frail that Briony had no idea what she could achieve as she started to go toward them.
AI-RC-090This new element—the innocent child—put his lapse beyond embarrassment, beyond explanation.
AI-RC-096self-and-identity
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
AI-RC-083Then playwriting itself became a nettle—the shallowness, the wasted time, the messiness of other minds, the hopelessness of pretending.
AI-RC-053shame
They felt watched by their bemused childhood selves. But the contact of tongues, alive and slippery muscle, changed that.
AI-RC-098It's like being close up to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure I can. But I know it's there.
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