Blind Assassin

Author: Margaret Atwood
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Margaret Atwood is a renowned Canadian writer today, and her early works such as The Edible Woman are familiar to Chinese readers. This book is her influential work published in 2000, which won the highest British literary award of that year—the Booker Prize. It is a novel with a complex and ingenious structure, featuring nested stories. The novel has two female protagonists: one is Laura, who dies in a car accident at the very beginning of the story; the other is her sister Alice, who lives in the shadow of the deceased and recalls memories that are quickly fading. The story of the Blind Assassin was written by Laura before her death, describing the romance between a wealthy young lady and a fugitive poor man in the turbulent 1930s. At the same time, this couple imagined a story set on another planet. This fictional story is filled with love, sacrifice, and betrayal. Similarly, in real life, Alice marries the wealthy businessman Richard, which appears to be a happy marriage to outsiders. Unbeknownst to her, Richard extends his dark influence toward his sister-in-law, Laura, making her car accident raise suspicions.
This is a novel with a complex and ingenious structure, featuring nested stories: Laura wrote a novel before her death about the romance between a wealthy young lady and a poor man. Shortly after, she died in a car accident; her sister Alice lives in the shadow of the deceased, recalling memories that are quickly fading. The book won the highest British literary award of 2000—the Booker Prize.