9780748113347_

Winner of the Man Booker Prize

By the author of The Handmaids Tale and Alias Grace

Laura Chases older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sisters tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following.
Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama.

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize

By the author of The Handmaids Tale and Alias Grace

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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAIDS TALE AND THE TESTAMENTS
WINNER OF THE 2000 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge

Decades after Lauras mysterious demise, her sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric familys history. Intertwined with Iriss story are chapters from the scandalous novel that made Laura famous, in which two unnamed lovers meet secretly in rented rooms and seedy cafés, themselves writing a pulp fantasy novel of a blind killer on a distant planet.

As these stories-within-stories twist and turn through love and jealousy, self-sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real narrative, as all move closer to catastrophe in a brilliant and astonishing final twist. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama.

...(*_*)9780748113347_

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAIDS TALE AND THE TESTAMENTS
WINNER OF THE 2000 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge

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The Blind Assassin

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