Bolsillo Zeta Narrativa Extranjera: El Asesino Ciego (Series #412) (Paperback)

from rocketjk

I found this to be a wonderful book, if not always an easy one to read. I was pulled in, first, by Atwood wonderful, easy writing style, rich in stunning metaphor yet advancing smoothly, sentence by sentence and page by page. It is the story of a woman growing up in a monied family in Canada that...

from drivingsideways

This was the first novel I read of Atwood, and (for a book randomly picked up off a street in Bombay, since I had no idea who Atwood was!), it was a great find! The story of two sisters, their troubled relationship with each other and those around, set in a time of political and social change, is...

from kambrogi

This Booker Prize winner is an outstanding book. The novel maps out a complex family mystery that is as fascinating as it is tragic. It begins with the suicide of a young woman and the publication of her posthumous novel. Traveling back and forth in time from the 1930's to the present day, throug...

from smouw

The truth always comes out in the end, and in The Blind Assassin, a title which fits perfectly in many, many ways, Margaret Atwood's main character Iris finally tells the whole story, her story, her family's story. It's not a happy one, and as I read, I couldn't help but think about human nature'...

from Cait86

Attention all LTers: read this book. Don't put it on the bottom of your TBR, don't list it as a book to read next year, don't forget about it - read it soon. Do not despair when the plot seems to lag. Appreciate the beauty of the language, the well constructed paragraphs of prose that flow like n...