Atonement
- Kategoria:
- literatura piękna
- Tytuł oryginału:
- Atonement
- Wydawnictwo:
- Vintage
- Data wydania:
- 2007-01-01
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2007-01-01
- Liczba stron:
- 372
- Czas czytania
- 6 godz. 12 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 0099429799
- Ekranizacje:
- Pokuta (2008)
- Tagi:
- pokuta
- Inne
Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old English girl, with a certain talent for writing, lives at her family's country estate with her parents. Her older sister, Cecilia, attends the University of Cambridge with Robbie Turner, the son of the Tallis family housekeeper and a childhood friend of Cecilia's. In the summer of 1935, Briony's maternal cousins, twins Jackson and Pierrot, and Lola, come to visit the family. On this day Briony witnesses a moment of sexual tension between Cecilia and Robbie from afar. Briony misconstrues the situation and concludes that Robbie is acting aggressively toward Cecilia. Robbie, meanwhile, realises he is attracted to Cecilia, whom he has not seen in some time, and writes several drafts of a love letter to her, giving a copy to Briony to deliver. By accident he gives her a version he had meant to discard, which contains lewd and vulgar references...