Available for the first time as a downloadable audio file.
‘Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.’ Thus begins The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood’s new novel. Laura Chase’s older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While bewailing her unreliable body and deriding those who try to help her, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life and her perilous times, but in particular on the events surrounding her sister’s tragic early death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase a dollop of notoriety as well as a cult following: as Iris says, she herself lives ‘in the long shadow cast by Laura’. Sexually explicit for its time and place, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a left-leaning man on the run.
© 2005 HarperCollins (Ljudbok): 9780007218448
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 15 juni 2005
Available for the first time as a downloadable audio file.
‘Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.’ Thus begins The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood’s new novel. Laura Chase’s older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While bewailing her unreliable body and deriding those who try to help her, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life and her perilous times, but in particular on the events surrounding her sister’s tragic early death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase a dollop of notoriety as well as a cult following: as Iris says, she herself lives ‘in the long shadow cast by Laura’. Sexually explicit for its time and place, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a left-leaning man on the run.
© 2005 HarperCollins (Ljudbok): 9780007218448
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 15 juni 2005
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André
10 mars 2018
Underbar bok. Den är förmodligen bättre att läsa än att lyssna på pga sin uppbyggnad. Jag läser den nästa gång.
Eva
5 jan. 2021
Mycket välskriven men svår att följa som lyssnare!
Maria
27 maj 2021
Lite långsam men en intressant Kanadensisk familjehistoria från sekelskiftet och 1900 talets första hälft. Bra uppläsare!
Gris
31 juli 2021
Riktigt bra bok. Tyvärr förstör uppläsaren upplevelsen till viss del genom att skådespela rösterna.
Ann
27 okt. 2020
Margaret Atwood is amazing as is this book
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