The Blind Assassin
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Amazon.co.uk Review
At the end of her life, Iris Griffen takes up her pen to record the secret history of her family, the romantic melodrama of its decline and fall between the two World Wars. Conjuring a world of prosperity and misery, marriage and loneliness, the central enigma of Iris's tale is the death of her sister, Laura Chase, who "drove a car off a bridge" at the end of the Second World War. Suicide or accident? The story gradually unfolds, interspersed with sketches of Iris's present-day life--confined by age and ill-health--and a second novel, The Blind Assassin by Laura Chase. Allowing a glimpse into a clandestine love affair between a privileged young woman and a radical "agitator" on the run, this version of The Blind Assassin is an overt act of seduction: the exchange of sex and story about an imaginary world of Sakiel-Norn (a play with the potential, and convention, of fantasy and sci-fi).
I loved this book - what an amazing read. Although you have an idea of what happens at the end, you don't know how or why it happens, or exactly what happens to each of the characters till the very end. The story is gripping & the characters easy to sympathise with.
At the end of her life, Iris Griffen takes up her pen to record the secret history of her family, the romantic melodrama of its decline and fall between the two World Wars. Conjuring a world of prosperity and misery, marriage and loneliness, the central enigma of Iris's tale is the death of her sister, Laura Chase, who "drove a car off a bridge" at the end of the Second World War. Suicide or accident? The story gradually unfolds, interspersed with sketches of Iris's present-day life--confined by age and ill-health--and a second novel, The Blind Assassin by Laura Chase. Allowing a glimpse into a clandestine love affair between a privileged young woman and a radical "agitator" on the run, this version of The Blind Assassin is an overt act of seduction: the exchange of sex and story about an imaginary world of Sakiel-Norn (a play with the potential, and convention, of fantasy and sci-fi).
I loved this book - what an amazing read. Although you have an idea of what happens at the end, you don't know how or why it happens, or exactly what happens to each of the characters till the very end. The story is gripping & the characters easy to sympathise with.
Offering this as a ray.
Participants:
teggers (UK till May - EU)
jellyfish67 (UK - EU pref) ...here!
WigglyWoods (UK-Int'l)
Hayes13 (Rome - EU)
kizmiaz (Portugal - EU)
Participants:
teggers (UK till May - EU)
jellyfish67 (UK - EU pref) ...here!
WigglyWoods (UK-Int'l)
Hayes13 (Rome - EU)
kizmiaz (Portugal - EU)
Journal Entry 3 by cally-c at Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Friday, January 16, 2009
Released 15 yrs ago (1/16/2009 UTC) at Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
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Sent to teggers.
Sent to teggers.
Yay! It came today. I have a few books to get through before I can start but I'm looking forward to reading it.
Journal Entry 5 by teggers at Royal Mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Released 15 yrs ago (3/17/2009 UTC) at Royal Mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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Off to the next person in the ring. Enjoy.
Off to the next person in the ring. Enjoy.
Arrived safely yesterday.
