The Blind Assassin : A Novel Condition:Good An NPR Best Book of

An NPR Best Book of 2017A Times Critics' Top Book of 2017A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery of 2017An Amazon Book of the Month

we read the disintegration of a whole society over half a century

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the relation between experience and the self

The Blind Assassin : A Novel Condition:Good An NPR Best Book ofThe Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister'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