#3 The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
Booker Prize: Booker 2000 Winner
Plot Time and Place: Canada 1998
Opening sentence: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge".
Plot summary: The novel explores the complex relationship between two sisters, Iris and Laura. The novel is structured as a nested narrative, with the main story of the sisters' lives framed by a science fiction story about a blind assassin that Laura wrote before her death.
Review: Amazing. A story inside a story inside a story. Keeps you really concentrated. Made me a lifelong Atwood fan.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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