- Title:
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The Blind Assassin (MP3)
- Written by:
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Margaret Atwood
- Read by:
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Lorelei King
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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18 hours 26 minutes
- MP3 size:
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682 MB
- Published:
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July 01 2014
- Available Date:
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July 01 2014
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486225927
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction; Science Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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International bestseller
Bestselling author
Winner The Man Booker Prize 2000
'Margaret Atwood is one of the most brilliant and unpredictable novelists alive.'
Literary Review
Margaret Atwood's celebrated Booker Prize-winning novel.
"Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge."
These words 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 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.
Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.
'Atwood has never written with more flair and versatility than in this multidimensional novel. Adding sardonic wit and characterisation that takes you into the ambivalent intricacies of a personality, this is a novel of extraordinary variety and reach. A brilliant accomplishment.'
The Sunday Times
'Absorbing ... expertly rendered ... Virtuosic storytelling [is] on display.'
The New York Times
'Brilliant ... Opulent ... Atwood is a poet ... as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous.'
The New Yorker