Book Club – Atonement by Ian McEwan
Led by Marcy Manas and Liz Morley
16:00 Tuesday 24 February
Our Book Talk meets once a month. Books are available to borrow from the Gura Family Memorial Library.
Our February choice is Atonement by Ian McEwan. His symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. However, Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives—together with her precocious literary gifts—brings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crime’s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.
Members NIS 25
Non-Members NIS 35
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