The Blind Assassin

”一樁離奇的車禍，揭發了一段隱藏多年的秘密！蘿拉到底是死於自殺還是意外？事隔數十年，艾莉絲用黑色幽默的語調，述說她與丈夫、情人以及妹妹之間糾纏不清的感情糾葛；掀起一個又一個驚人內幕！
　　蘿拉死後兩年，經由艾莉絲整理出版了一本署名為蘿拉的小說《盲眼刺客》，描寫一個遭警察全力緝捕的左翼分子，為取悅幽會的女孩，如同《一千零一夜》裡逃避死亡的主角，一次次編造辛克龍星球的奇幻故事。故事中暗藏洶湧的愛情、背叛與死亡。
　　雙線並行，劇中劇的結構，輕鬆易讀的句子，展現瑪格麗特龐大的寫作企圖。是愛讀小說的人不可不讀的佳作！本書極力挑戰讀者的想像空間，不僅讓人感嘆作者驚人的想像力；而故事高潮起伏、引人入勝的情節，更讓讀者不忍釋手，無法停止閱讀。
“Iris Chase Griffen is nearing the end of her life and is determined to set down her version of the stories and scandals that have long swirled around her and her family. In a narrative that spans the twentieth century, Iris describes a childhood of wealth and privilege darkened by her mother’s early death and her father’s alcoholism and ultimately destroyed when the economic and political turmoil of the Depression forces her father to close the family’s once-thriving factories. She tells of her marriage to Richard Griffen, a greedy, ambitious industrialist whose promise to save Iris and her young, vulnerable sister, Laura, turns out to be a snare of lies and treachery; and of her decision, spurred by grief and guilt after Laura’s suicide, to publish a manuscript that catapults Laura to posthumous fame and condemns Iris to a life of lonely isolation.
Alternating with Iris’s reminiscences and wry commentary on her current situation are passages from Laura’s scandalous novel, The Blind Assassin, about an upper-class married woman and her lover, a hack writer and a political radical, who spins a science fiction tale (also entitled The Blind Assassin) during their clandestine meetings. Newspaper reports on events in the characters’ personal lives--from Norval Chase’s desperately hopeful speech at the last company picnic to Iris’s posh wedding to Richard Griffen’s mysterious death--as well as accounts of actual historical events add yet another dimension to the novel, coloring, deepening, and sometimes contradicting the readers’ perceptions.
With breathtaking grace and authority, Atwood moves from richly detailed, multigenerational family saga to pitch-perfect, ’30s-style science fiction to bittersweet memoir. The result is a work of extraordinary power, an exploration not only of imagined lives past, present, and future, but of the art and artifice of storytelling itself. Intricately constructed, The Blind Assassin crosses boundaries of genre and style in a tour de force of creative daring.“”