The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood

Author:Margaret Atwood
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Reading Group Guide, Older women, Psychological fiction, Women novelists, Aged women, Fiction, Fiction - General, Fiction - Authorship, Literary, General, Sisters - Death, Sisters, Widows, Domestic fiction
ISBN: 9780385720953
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2000-11-15T08:00:00+00:00

I swam, the sea was boundless, I saw no shore.

Tanit was merciless, my prayers were answered.

O you who drown in love, remember me.

—INSCRIPTION ON A CARTHAGINIAN FUNERARY URN

The word is a flame burning in a dark glass.

—SHEILA WATSON

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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

Opening with a terse account of her sister Laura’s death in 1945, it 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, a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. With many threads and a series of events that follow one another at a breathtaking pace, everything comes together and readers discover that the story Atwood is telling is not only what it seems to be—but, in fact, much more.

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