Every secret of the body was rendered up--bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an intestine or an optic nerve. From this new and intimate perspective, [Briony] 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.
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Ian McEwan was a contemporary British novelist and screenwriter. Ian Russell McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 out of "the 100 most powerful people in British culture". Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality
- Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth