![]() ![]() 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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