The Blind Assassin
A novel inside a novel inside a scandal: an old woman unspools her sister's death and the story they hid. Booker winner
The novel that won Atwood her first Booker, and her most intricately built. An elderly Iris Chase recounts the death of her sister Laura and the family that unravelled around them, while a science-fiction story their characters tell each other threads through the whole. Layer by layer the nested tales expose a buried scandal, until the reader understands what was hidden and who really wrote what.
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