**From the #1*New York Times*bestselling author of\*The Handmaid's Tale**\* WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE In *The Blind Assassin,* Margaret Atwood weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative. The novel begins with the mysterious dea
The Blind Assassin: A Novel
โ Scribed by Atwood, Margaret
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Anchor
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 377 KB
- Edition
- 7
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in a dingy backstreet room. Set in a multi-layered story of the death of a woman's sister and husband in the 1940's, with a novel-within-a novel as a background.
โฆ Subjects
A Novel
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**The Blind Assassin** opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They 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 read
A science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in a dingy backstreet room. Set in a multi-layered story of the death of a woman's sister and husband in the 1940's, with a novel-within-a novel as a background.
SUMMARY: The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They 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 t
### Amazon.com Review _The Blind Assassin_ is a tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages. The survivor, Iris Chase Griffen, initially seems a little cold-blooded about this death in the family. But as Margaret Atwood's most ambitious work unfolds--a
**The Blind Assassin** opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They 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 read