Atonement

Ian McUan is one of the most famous modern British writers (along with Julian Barnes and Martin Emis), laureate of the Buker Prize for the novel "Amsterdam".
"Atonement" is a striking in its sincerity of the "Chronicle of Lost Time", which is led by a teenage girl, in his bizarre and childishly cruel way, re-evaluating and rethinking the events of the "adult" life. Having become a witness of rape, she interprets it in her own way and drives a chain of fatal events, which will “come to the most unexpected way after many, many years ...

Yes, she was just a child. But not every child sends a person to jail with his lies.

In 2007, the film adaptation of the novel (dir. Joe Wright, in the main roles of Kira Knightley and James Makeva) was released. The film was presented at the Venice Film Festival, won two Golden Globe awards and one of the seven Oscar nominations