The Blind Assassin (Unabridged)
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- €18.99
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- €18.99
Publisher Description
Margaret Atwood's celebrated Booker Prize-winning novel.
"Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge."
These words are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel.
Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist.
Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.
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. Blind Assassin traces the outrageous fortune of a pair of small-town society sisters in World War II-era Canada. The crackling, multi-layered 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—especially when narrated by Lorelei King—and you’ll practically race to the finish.