by Margaret Atwood · Virago · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781860498794
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«The Blind Assassin» is the novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Virago in paperback (641 pages, in English).
Iris Chase, eighty-two years old, recalls the tragic death of her sister Laura and the novel published after that event. That work narrates a clandestine romance in the 1930s between a wealthy young woman and a fugitive, who invent a pulp fantasy on the planet Zycron. Reality and fiction intertwine until secrets and catastrophe are revealed.
Winner of the 2000 Booker Prize, the novel was originally published in 2000; this Virago edition dates from August 2001.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, including book clubs seeking an award-winning novel with a layered narrative 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.
