The Blind Assassin: Booker Prize Winner
A Novel
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4.0 • 326 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.
Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family’s history. Intertwined with Iris’s account are chapters from the scandalous novel that made Laura famous, in which two illicit lovers amuse each other by spinning a tale of a blind killer on a distant planet.
These richly layered stories-within-stories gradually illuminate the secrets that have long haunted the Chase family, coming together in a brilliant and astonishing final twist.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
You never have to wonder if the great Margaret Atwood will be intellectually stimulating. But in this gothic-novel-slash-mystery-slash-melodrama, she’s also completely enchanting. The Blind Assassin traces the outrageous fortune of a pair of small-town society sisters in World War II–era Canada. The crackling, multilayered story has three plotlines, many time-shifts, a dash of truly crazy science fiction, a mind-blowing twist, and loads of family drama. It may sound overwhelming, but it’s not. Atwood’s talents for telling a great story are at their very finest here, so you’ll practically race to the finish.
Customer Reviews
Wow in a good way
Enormity of the plot is not obvious until the end, at which point, you will re-read parts and see the intelligently-placed subtle and direct clues which are sometimes a single word
Sci-fi novel within a novel…
Didn’t think I’d ever finish it, but I did. I’m a better person for having read it.
A Tour de Force of the 20th Century
Buckle yourself in before reading this one. Alternate storylines, flashbacks, reality vs. unreality, manipulation, human folly and more. Sometimes I think Marg comes from another planet, but no, she's just a great writer from Canada.