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~ Winner of the Man Booker Prize - 2000, the Hammett Prize - 2000, and the Puddly Award for New Novel - 2001
“Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge . . .”
Told by protagonist Iris Chase Griffen, The Blind Assassin has the sweep of an epic and the intimate focus of a family drama. By turns lyrical, outrageous, compelling, and funny, this entrancing novel is full of intrigue and desperation, at once infused with deep humour and undercurrents of darkness.
"Vintage Atwood: furious, funny, brilliant, and subversive achieving an almost impossible combination. The Blind Assassin is a hall of mirrors, with cutting insights at every turn, cloaked in a dreamy, all-enveloping atmosphere that seduces the reader with every sentence." -- The Times-Picayune