WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIME WRITERS DASHIELL HAMMETT AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION
FINALIST FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME
"Brilliant. . . . Opulent. . . . Atwood is a poet . . . as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous." —The New Yorker
"Dazzling and entertaining." —Globe and Mail
"Sumptuous and compelling." —Toronto Star
"There is no presence more formidably protean than Margaret Atwood's in Canadian culture. . . . [The Blind Assassin] will alternately charm and beguile its readers." —Winnipeg Free Press
"The kind of story so full of intrigue and desperation that you take it to bed with you simply because you can't bear to put it down. . . . It's one thing to write an accomplished novel; it's another entirely to spin a tale so brilliantly that the reader internalizes it." —Harper's Bazaar
"Absorbing. . . . Expertly rendered. . . . Virtuosic storytelling is on display." —The New York Times
"A literary high-wire act. . . . Big and ambiguous. . . . A sweeping family saga." —Newsweek
"Bewitching. . . . A killer novel. . . . Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton. . . . A wonderfully complex narrative." —The Chrisitian Science Monitor
"With [The Blind Assassin], Ms. Atwood offers added certification to her lofty position in world literature. . . . [It] is marked by lyrical writing and the intricacy of the narrative. The reader is repeatedly caught by surprise. . . . Almost to the last page, the book retains its sense of mystery." —The New York Times
"Chilling. . . . Lyrical. . . . [Atwood's] most ambitious work to date." —Boston Globe
"The Blind Assassin is quite simply Atwood's most emotional, yearning, heartfelt, sexy, and elegiac book over." —Quill & Quire
"Hauntingly powerful. . . . Margaret Atwood is one of the greatest writers alive. . . . [Her] style is tight, authoritative and as glittering and hard as a diamond. . . . The Blind Assassin is a novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights, and fierce characters. . . . Atwood's new work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade." —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Expansive. . . . A tour de force. . . . [The Blind Assassin] is in the best tradition of gothic melodrama." —Chicago Tribune
"Ingenious. . . . Atwood performs a spectacular sleight of hand, fashioning a bewitching, brilliantly layered story of how people see only what they wish to." —Entertainment Weekly
"Brilliant. . . . Bountiful. . . . Meticulously furnished with the clothing, cuisine, and locutions of the period. . . . Capacious, audacious." —San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle
"Vintage Atwood—furious, funny, brilliant, and subversive. . . . Atwood achieves an almost impossible combination—a hall of mirrors, with cutting insights at every turn, cloaked in a dreamy, all-enveloping atmosphere that seduces the reader with every sentence. . . . Iris Chase Griffen is one of the most memorable in a long line of dangerous, driven Atwood women. . . . In The Blind Assassin, [Atwood's] talents are on full display." —The Times-Picayune
"Enthralling. . . . Unforgettable. . . . Iris Chase is a brilliant addition to Atwood's roster of fascinating fictional narrators. Not only is her story sinuously complex, but she is entertaining company." —Time
"Complex and rich in period detail. . . . [A] stylish family saga." —People
"Exhilarating. . . . The Blind Assassin has enough mysteries to keep even a casual reader engaged. . . . There is a steely quality to Ms. Atwood's writing that's a bit scary but also exhilarating; no one gets away with anything." —The Wall Street Journal
"Rewarding. . . . Intricate. . . . Atwood continues to stretch the bounds of fictional technique." —The Seattle Times
"Atwood has never written with more flair and versatility than in this multidimensional novel. A brilliant accomplishment." —Sunday Times (UK)
"Sexy, readable, far-fetched, and intelligent. . . . Atwood brings style and substance together to make a beautiful plaster cast of all the proprieties and constrictions of the bourgeois colonial town that, in the decades after the war, British Toronto still was, and adds to it the vivid colours of human cruelty, love, and sin." —Elle
"An intricately structured, often poetically rendered novel that's also graced by [Atwood's] mordant wit. . . . So flush is The Blind Assassin with knowing, telling details, it's almost possible to close the book feeling the author has again slipped the bonds to create a fiction more persuasive than reality." —Daily News
"Assured. . . . A harsh portrait of class warfare and sexual exploitation, a knowing sature of pulp fiction and literary cultism, and an unflinching meditation on the uses of art, all wrapped up with Atwood's customary aplomb." —Chicago Sun-Times
"Atwood is a dazzling storyteller with a distinctive voice and an ear attuned to irony." —London Free Press
"Atwood's best novel to date. . . . It's a fair bet that The Blind Assassin will join that list of novels that stand beyond the reach of criticism." —The Denver Post
"Intricate, haunting. . . . The Blind Assassin is the kind of story so full of intrigue and desperation that you take it to bed with you simply because you can't bear to put it down. . . . Atwood has achieved an astonishing feat. It's one thing to write an accomplished novel; it's another entirely to spin a tale so brilliantly that the reader internalizes it." —Harper's Bazaar
"Entirely convincing. . . . Atwood is wonderfully perceptive." —The Economist
"Margaret Atwood is one of the most brilliant and unpredictable novelists alive." —Literary Review (UK)
"An example of a writer at the very peak of her performance. . . . As it delves into the kinds of relationships that can exist between men and women and the rich and poor, it becomes a compassionate and utterly honest book. It is profound and touching. It is to be treasured." —Edmonton Journal
"Boldly imagined and brilliantly executed." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Stories spin within stories in this spellbinding novel of avarice, love, and revenge." —Booklist (starred review)
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