Booker Prize Winner
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
Summary
Elderly Iris Chase looks back on a Canadian century of privilege and ruin, framed around her sister Laura's mysterious death and a pulpy science fiction romance attributed to Laura. Atwood layers a memoir, a novel within the novel, and newspaper clippings into a single intricate machine that gradually reveals its secrets. The result is a meditation on storytelling, sisterhood, and the unreliable nature of the past.
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Historical Context & Significance
This win for her tenth novel was celebrated as long overdue crowning for Atwood's career.