Review: Atonement

Atonement by Ian McEwan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Do you want to read an impredictable novel? This is your story then. Atonement is one of those books which you can only read once. Well, you can reread it, but the effect that McEwan achieves the first time you read it will never be the same. Until the last ten pages, you think you are reading a realist novel which mingles love and war. Typical, isn't it? Wait to read those last pages to feel how the whole literary world created along the novel falls at your feet, wait to see how everything that you had believed and predicted is destroyed, how in a couple of paragraphs the narrator creates an uncertainty which, under my view, will always remain no matter how many times you think about it. You feel fascinated and deceived all at once.


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