![]() ![]() The postscript is written in first person and the present tense, presenting the reader with a first-person unreliable narrator, the 77-year-old Briony, who confesses to having written the previous sections as an act of atonement. The first three sections of the novel are seemingly told by a third-person reliable narrator accounting for the development of a tragic love story from 1935 to 1940. Ian McEwan creates a multi-level narrative using a mix of classic and postmodern techniques. The narrator, Briony, turns out to be a 77-year-old successful writer who describes the tragic mistake that she made in her childhood and the fictitious course of events that allowed her to atone for that mistake. The fourth part is the postscript set in 1999 London, in which it is revealed that the events of the preceding two sections of the novel have never happened in real life. ![]() The novel is divided into four parts, each taking place in a different period: 1935 England, France, and England during the Second World War, and present-day England. ![]()
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