This is a rare page-turner, a novel that refuses to be put down until you’re finished with it. The most prominent of these stories is about a blind assassin in the city of Sakiel-Norn on a faraway planet named Zycron.
And this alone would be enough to place The Blind Assassin in my Top Five Novels list.īut that’s not all! The unnamed man within The Blind Assassin-within- The Blind Assassin is a pulp sci-fi writer, and throughout the course of the novel-within-the-novel, he tells several science fiction stories to the unnamed woman. And this novel-within-the-novel tells the story of two unnamed lovers in desperate situations during World War II. Interspersed throughout Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin is another novel also titled The Blind Assassin. This alone would be enough to make it into my Top Ten Novels list.īut that’s not all. The octogenarian Iris is, as we discover, writing this story down to tell her estranged granddaughter. This novel has a main plotline, that of Iris and Laura Chase growing up in the fictional Port Ticonderoga, Ontario, and it is told by Iris Chase near the end of her life. Now, with that disclaimer out of the way, let me just say this: The Blind Assassin is the best novel I have ever read. I have read many of her works and have never encountered one that I did not enjoy.
I want everyone to read this review with a grain of salt: I am a Margaret Atwood fanboy.
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