The Blind Assassin: A Novel British Book Award for Children's Book of the Year (1998) and that once we have

and that once we have found our path we can help others to do so as well

only self-centredness

nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key

as their friendship

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The Blind Assassin: A Novel British Book Award for Children's Book of the Year (1998) and that once we haveThe Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel within a novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two