The Blind Assassin: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood

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Book Review: A dazzling,haunting novel of hidden love and family secrets.
Summary: 5 Stars

Atwood has always had an erudite, sexy and witty way with language and this new novel is no exception. The Blind Assassin, the novel within the novel, consists of an un-named man relating weird and distrurbing science fiction to an equally anonymous upper class woman. Atwood lets rip with her rich and persuasive use of language, conjuring up cities of strange creatures, sacrifical virgins, blind assassins, women who roam the mountains, devouring men, mythologies and exotic religions. The erotic relationship between the two nameless protaganists is consumated in a series of seedy hotel and rooms, furtive and forbidden. Paranoia and fear of discovery follow them everywhere. It seems a strange choice of themes and styles that Atwood has chosen to combine, but the unsettling ideas that bubble through both sides of the story are haunting and stay with you long after putting the book down. You see things coming and then they vanish and you have to re-read passages and re-think your reactions. It shimmers in front of you, glinting off the page. Ultimately it is a deeply moving novel, whose charaters come vividly to life. I found myself crying softly as I finished it, touched by the beauty and pain in the lives of the characters and also by my own yearning for something I can't quite explain. But if you read this extraordinary novel you will perhaps understand what I mean.

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