The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood · 2000 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Iris Chase, an elderly woman in a Canadian town, recounts the fortunes of her wealthy Ontario family and the death of her sister Laura in 1945. Interleaved are newspaper clippings and a banned novel in which two lovers trade a pulp science-fiction tale. Winner of the Booker Prize, it nests three narratives inside one another.

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