Atonement

Resumen del libro

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever.

Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. "From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended."

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Javier Fernández de Castro, nacido en Aranda de Duero, Burgos, en 1942, pasó parte de su infancia en Zaragoza, trasladándose después a Barcelona y Pamplona, donde estudió periodismo. Desde en tonces ha ejercido diversos oficios relacionados con la prensa, la televisión, la enseñanza y la edi ción, siempre buscando la distancia necesaria para poder escribir novelas, entre las que se cuentan: x{0026}lt;em Alimento del saltox{0026}lt;/em (Barral, 1974),x{0026}lt;em Así en la tierrax{0026}lt;/em (Barral, 1977), x{0026}lt;em El laberinto de fango x{0026}lt;/em (Argos Verga ra, 1983) y x{0026}lt;em La novia del capitánx{0026}lt;/em (Mondadori, 1987).x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Foto Elsbeth Franckenx{0026}lt;/p