The Blind Assassin is a novel by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2000. The book is set in the fictional Ontario town of Port Ticonderoga and in Toronto. It is narrated from the present day, referring to previous events that span the twentieth century but mostly the 1930s and 1940s.

2000年9月1日 · Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood is a magnificent 5-star, multi-dimensional, many-layered classic. This story is based in Canada, in the fictional rural town of Port Ticonderoga and the city of Toronto and involves the lives of two sisters, Iris and Laura, who were raised in the 1930s.

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2001年8月28日 · Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist.

In The Blind Assassin, the man tells the woman about how enslaved children on Sakiel-Norn are forced to make carpets until they go blind, at which point they are sold into brothels. Those who manage to escape become hired assassins.

About The Blind Assassin. The bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of …

The Blind Assassin is a work of extraordinary power. It is an exploration not only of imagined lives past, present, and future, but of the art and artifice of storytelling, crossing boundaries of genre and style in a tour de force of creative daring.

2000年9月1日 · The counterpart story, The Blind Assassin, is a strange futuristic tale that dramatizes in unusual (faux-Oriental) fashion a nameless woman's obsession with a science-fiction writer whose imaginings blithely mirror and exploit his power over her. ....

The Blind Assassin, published in 2000, is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood that blends mystery and family drama. It follows Iris Chase as she reflects on her life, intertwining her sister Laura’s posthumously published science fiction novel, The Blind Assassin.