International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002

Books nominated for the 2002 Award

The Blind Assassin spans the decades between the First World War and the present.
Iris Chase, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by her once-prosperous family before the First World War. While coping with her now unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, leading up to the events surrounding her sister Laura's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel that earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety, but also a devoted cult following. It describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a left-leaning man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms and seedy cafes, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on the planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one: while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe.

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her novels include The Handmaid's Tale and Cat'e Eye, both shortlisted for the Booker prize, The Robber Bride, and, most recently, Alias Grace, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her work has been translated into thirty-three languages. Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto, with writer Graeme Gibson. The Blind Assassin ,her tenth novel, won the Booker Prize in 2000.

The Blind Assassin	Nominated ISBNs: 0771008635 0747549370 0385475721	Find out more about the author on the following websites: Offers an excerpt from The Blind Assassin Author profile Brief review of The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood

Nominated by:
Central Openbare Bibliotheek, Ghent, Belgium Cork City Libraries, Cork, Ireland Stadtbuchereien Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany London Libraries, England Bibliotheek Tweebronnen, Leuven, Belgium Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, U.S.A Tampere City Library, Tampere, Finland Cape Breton Regional Library, Nova Scotia, Canada Toronto Public Library Board, Toronto, Canada Ottowa Public Library, Ottowa, Canada Durban Metropolitan Library Services, Durban, South Africa

Books nominated for the 2002 Award
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