by Margaret Atwood · Proa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484372899
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«L'assassí cec» is a contemporary fiction novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Proa in paperback (656 pages, in Catalan).
Iris Chase recalls her youth in a prosperous industrial family in Ontario and the death of her sister Laura after the Second World War. Laura left a novel, L'assassí cec, about the clandestine meetings between a wealthy young woman and a fugitive who invent a fantastic story. Fiction within fiction that unites reality and fantasy.
Winner of the Booker Prize 2000 and the Hammett Prize, translated into 33 languages. Belongs to the A TOT VENT-BETA collection from Proa.
Aimed at reading clubs and readers of literary fiction interested in narratives with a story-within-a-story structure.
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.
