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Ladataan... Sokea surmaaja (2000)– tekijä: Margaret Atwood
  
Booker Prize (2) » 82 lisää Best Historical Fiction (106) Unread books (39) Historical Fiction (43) Female Author (37) Top Five Books of 2013 (155) Best family sagas (16) Female Protagonist (59) Favourite Books (603) Metafiction (37) Books Read in 2013 (69) Top Five Books of 2014 (879) 2000s decade (18) Books Read in 2015 (493) Canada (9) SHOULD Read Books! (58) Books tagged favorites (293) To Read (615) Allie's Wishlist (32) Protagonists - Women (10) Speculative Fiction (23) Women Writers (5) Books Tagged Abuse (54) Women's Stories (17) Secrets Books (60) Best Family Stories (129) Best Love Stories (90) Unreliable Narrators (13) Love and Marriage (34) Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Alku oli hankala, mutta lopulta ei olisi millään malttanut lopettaa lukemista. Tarinoita tarinoiden sisällä, kuin jännityskertomus. (  ) nerine | Apr 16, 2011 | 
 Margaret Atwood poses a provocative question in her new novel, "The Blind Assassin." How much are the bad turns of one's life determined by things beyond our control, like sex and class, and how much by personal responsibility? Unlike most folks who raise this question so that they can wag their finger -- she's made her bed, and so on -- Atwood's foray into this moral terrain is complex and surprising. Far from preaching to the converted, Atwood's cunning tale assumes a like-minded reader only so that she can argue, quite persuasively, from the other side. In her tenth novel, Margaret Atwood again demonstrates that she has mastered the art of creating dense, complex fictions from carefully layered narratives, making use of an array of literary devices - flashbacks, multiple time schemes, ambiguous, indeterminate plots - and that she can hook her readers by virtue of her exceptional story-telling skills. The Blind Assassin is not a book that can easily be put to one side, in spite of its length and the fact that its twists and turns occasionally try the patience; yet it falls short of making the emotional impact that its suggestive and slippery plot at times promises.  Ms. Atwood's absorbing new novel, ''The Blind Assassin,'' features a story within a story within a story -- a science-fiction yarn within a hard-boiled tale of adultery within a larger narrative about familial love and dissolution. The novel is largely unencumbered by the feminist ideology that weighed down such earlier Atwood novels as ''The Edible Woman'' and ''The Handmaid's Tale,'' and for the most part it is also shorn of those books' satiric social vision. In fact, of all the author's books to date, ''The Blind Assassin'' is most purely a work of entertainment -- an expertly rendered Daphne du Maurieresque tale that showcases Ms. Atwood's narrative powers and her ardent love of the Gothic. In her ingenious new tale of love, rivalry, and deception, The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood interweaves several genres — a confessional memoir, a pulp fantasy novel, newspaper clippings — to tease out the secrets behind the 1945 death of 25-year-old socialite Laura Chase.  Nearly 20 years ago, in speaking of her craft, the novelist Margaret Atwood observed that ''a character in a book who is consistently well behaved probably spells disaster for the book.'' She might have asserted the more general principle that consistent anything in a character can prove tedious. If we apply the old Forsterian standard that round characters are ones ''capable of surprising in a convincing way,'' Atwood's new novel, for all its multilayered story-within-a-story-within-a-story construction, must be judged flat as a pancake. In ''The Blind Assassin,'' overlong and badly written, our first impressions of the dramatis personae prove not so much lasting as total. Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinTEAdue Tea (1113)
A science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in a dingy backstreet room. Set in a multi-layered story of the death of a woman's sister and husband in the 1940's, with a novel-within-a novel as a background. No library descriptions found. |
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