"Writing is like life. You don't know where you are until you stop and look back."
(Margaret Atwood)

Two sisters who complete each other, the deep, bitter nostalgia of family, dashed expectations, another economic crisis - death. Iris searches for the betrayed destinies of an entire century within codes that are probably nonexistent; or imaginary.

Like a folk science fiction leaflet, "The Blind Assassin" is a novel within a novel, it is the legacy and the terrible omen for the narrator, a desperate farce of secrets and lies that sealed lives, an elegy and a mockery for a black and white era.

Eleven years later, the novel that awarded the Canadian author the Booker Prize maintains the vitality of its extravagant effort to look, invoke, and narrate the blindness that kills. And, if possible, to deny it marginally and relentlessly.

"The Blind Assassin," despite its misleading title, is not a detective story. It is a multi-layered family novel of memory and reflection on History, storytelling, and female oppression. In her tenth novel, Margaret Atwood once again demonstrates her literary abilities."
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