Book
The Blind Assassin
- Published
- 2000
- Genre
- SciFi/Fantasy
- Publisher
- Proa
- Pages
- 637
- Words
- 176569
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78433.The_Blind_Assassin?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.8
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
It opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist.
Collections
Time Magazine 1923-2005
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9788484374633
- ISBN-10
- 8484374637
Tags
Award Winners-ALA Best Book for Young AdultsAward Winners-ALA Notable/Best BooksAward Winners-Governor General's Literary AwardCanadian Content-Canadian Content (All)Family Life-Death/DyingFamily Life-SistersMysteries-Misc./OtherTime Magazine Best Books