The Blind Assassin

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I can't entirely decide whether I liked The Blind Assassin or not. At times it felt very long; at other times it sucked me in and I couldn't put it down. At first I found Margaret Atwood's story-within-a-story-within-a-story experiment confusing, but as the characters started to emerge and their voices to become more distinct, it became a fascinating exploration of the main character's relationship to her own past and that of her sister. The interesting nesting of stories allows us to explore the narrator as she is at the time of the telling, as she was when younger and as her current self sees her younger self. It is a juxtaposition often attempted, but rarely managed as gracefully as Atwood has done.

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