by Margaret Atwood · ZETA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466308502
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«El asesino ciego» is the novel by Margaret Atwood, published by ZETA in paperback (672 pages, in Spanish).
The elderly Iris Chase recalls her youth in a well-off family and the events surrounding the tragic death of her sister Laura. The narrative interweaves a novel of illicit love, with echoes of mystery, reflecting life in a small Canadian town during the thirties and forties.
Original title: The Blind Assassin. Translation by Dolors Udina. Winner of the Booker Prize in 2000.
For readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate stories with a novel-within-a-novel structure and family secrets.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
