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Ian McEwan

UK · WWII — literary fiction

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Booker Prize-winning British novelist. Atonement turns on a false accusation in 1935 and the retreat to Dunkirk five years later.

Books in Database (1)

Atonement cover
Atonement 2001 · 351 pages

A child's lie destroys two lives; the retreat to Dunkirk gives the lie its terrible setting.

Historical Fiction

Events Covered

1940 Dunkirk Evacuation