麦克尤恩这本小说夺人心魄、文笔优美。故事始于1935年的一个夏日,13岁的布莱欧妮向她的母亲展示她创作的短剧,还准备第二天晚上和三个表姐一起表演。
"Briony was hardly to know it then, but this was the project's highest point of fulfillment," McEwan writes. "Nothing came near it for satisfaction, all else was dreams and frustration."That evening, Briony witnesses her 15-year-old cousin Lola being assaulted in the darkened woods. Her testimony implicates Robbie, her sister Cecilia's boyfriend from Cambridge and son of the family house maid, and he is jailed.
麦克尤恩写到:“布里奥妮几乎不知道那已经是她剧本最成功的时刻了,其他的设想都只是些白日梦,不能为她带来任何满足,甚至会让她尝到沮丧的滋味。”那天晚上,布里奥妮亲眼目睹了自己15岁的表姐罗拉在黑暗的树丛中被强暴。她的证词暗示了她姐姐塞西莉亚来自剑桥的男友罗比——家中女仆的儿子——就是犯人,而后他便入狱了。
In a second section, McEwan gives a panoramic account of the harrowing evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, with Robbie among those saved. Realising she has ruined Cecilia and Robbie's lives, Briony works as a nurse during the Blitz in a third section. As McEwan follows these characters through six decades, Briony's search for redemption evolves into a meditation on the power of art.
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