The Blind Assassin

The Blind Assassin is a novel written by Margaret Atwood. Released in 2000, it tells of two sisters living in 30s Canada.

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Iris Chase Griffen
Laura Chase

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Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s, The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience.

It opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura'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.

For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The Blind Assassin proves once again that Atwood is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of our time. Like The Handmaid's Tale, it is destined to become a classic.

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Booker Prize winners
1969-1979 Something to Answer For, The Elected Member, In a Free State, G., The Siege of Krishnapur, The Conservationist, Holiday, Heat and Dust, Saville, Staying On, The Sea, the Sea, Offshore 1980-1990 Rites of Passage, Midnight's Children, Schindler's Ark, Life & Times of Michael K, Hotel du Lac, The Bone People, The Old Devils, Moon Tigers, Oscar and Lucinda, The Remains of the Day, Possession 1991-2000 The Famished Road, The English Patient and Sacred Hunger, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, How Late It Was, How Late, The Ghost Road, Last Orders, The God of Small Things, Amsterdam, Disgrace, The Blind Assassin 2001-2010 True History of the Kelly Gang, Life of Pi, Vernon God Little, The Line of Beauty, The Sea, The Inheritance of Loss, The Gathering, The White Tiger, Wolf Hall, The Finkler Question 2011-2024 The Sense of an Ending, Bring Up the Bodies, The Luminaries, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Sellout, Lincoln in the Bardo, Milkman, The Testaments and Girl, Woman, Other, Shuggie Bain, The Promise, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Prophet Eye, Orbital

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S.	Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams	2013	A novel with a similar story-in-story format
House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski	2000	A novel with a similar story-in-story format
Fifth Business	Robertson Davies	1970	A novel with somewhat similar themes
Perdita	Hilary Scharper	2013	A novel with somewhat similar themes
The Last of the Crazy People	Timothy Findley	1967	A novel with somewhat similar themes

The Blind Assassin

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