Blind Assassin (TPB)
Atwood, Margaret
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 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. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood...
ISBN: 978-0-385-72095-3
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
