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No cover — The blind assassin (2001, Virago Press)

641 pages

English language

Published March 16, 2001 by Virago Press.

ISBN:: 9781860498794

(1 review)

More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sisters and their secrets. Set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history, The Blind Assassin is an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal...

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Fionnáin reviewed The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood

Review of 'The blind assassin' on 'Import'

4 stars

An outstanding portrayal of control and adversity, and freedom of choice as it was perceived from one end of the 20th Century to the other.

Subjects

Sisters -- Death -- Fiction
Widows -- Fiction