Pre-numbered label used for registration.

This book was pretty good, yet depressing. And I hated all of the characters except for the narrator. This one left Germany on Nov 7 or 8 headed for luckaye in Australia.

Thank you for sending this book for me to read :)

I quite liked this book, though I wanted to keep skipping ahead to find out what happens. You are told the story in bits and pieces and I found it a bit frustrating at times, but I kept reading to find out how it all ended. Not really a surprise, in the end.

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Into the surprise bookbog

Taken from surprise fiction bookbag.

Blurb from back of book:

The Booker Prize-winning sensation from the incomparable Margaret Atwood - a novel that combines elements of gothic drama, romantic suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding narrative.

The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." THey are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, sole surviving descendant of a once rich and influential Ontario family, 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. Entitles The Blind Assissin, it is a science fiction story improvised by two unnamed lovers who met 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 distinguised industrialist.

What makes this novel Margaret Atwood's strongest and most profoundly entertaining is the way in which the three wonderfully rich stories weave together, gradually revealing through their interplay the secrets surrounding the entire Chase family - and most particularly the fascinating and tangles lives of the two sisters. The Blind Assassin is a brilliant and enthralling book by a writer at the top of her form.



13th April: My friend has borrowed this and will return to me when finished.

Received this back from my friend this week. She found this one interesting.

I don't have time to read this at the moment so it is going in a satchel of books for the Adelaide Convention.

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Sending in a bag of books for release at the Australian Bookcrossing Convention in Adelaide in October.

A well travelled Booker Prize winner. Thanks all.

I scored this little gem in my convention goody bag - thank you all very much!

Released to christen our new street library and OBCZ ❤️