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The Blind Assassin

(2000)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2002 Dublin Literary Award (nominee)
2001 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee)
2000 Booker Prize

Even now, at the age of 82, Iris lives in the shadow cast by her younger sister Laura. Now poor and trying to cope with a failing body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death and the novel which earned her such notoriety.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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