"April 2002, First Edition in the United States of America" stated on copyright page; Doubleday publishers, New York; hardback; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket very good.
 
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On a summer day in 1935, thirteen year old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtaion between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant.  But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.