The Blind Assassin

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The Blind Assassin is a Booker Prize–winning novel by Margaret Atwood that blends family saga, mystery, and metafiction through a story-within-a-story structure.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
author Margaret Atwood
awardReceived Booker Prize
Booker Prize
surface form: Booker Prize for Fiction
countryOfOrigin Canada
genre family saga
historical fiction
literary fiction
metafiction
mystery fiction
hasPart fictional novel titled "The Blind Assassin"
science fiction tale about a blind assassin
isbn 0-7710-0868-6
language English
literaryTechnique embedded narrative
multiple timelines
nonlinear narrative
unreliable narrator
mainCharacter Alex Thomas
Iris Chase
Laura Chase
Richard Griffen
mediaType hardcover
paperback
print
narrativeForm frame narrative
story within a story
notableRecognition listed among important works of Canadian literature
pages 521
partOf Margaret Atwood bibliography
placeOfSetting Canada
Ontario
publicationDate 2000
publisher McClelland and Stewart
surface form: McClelland & Stewart

Nan A. Talese
setInPeriod 20th century
Great Depression
World War II era
interwar period
theme class and power
gender and patriarchy
guilt
memory
political radicalism
sisterhood
storytelling and authorship

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Margaret Atwood notableWork The Blind Assassin