Galardonada con el Premio Booker, una narración que combina suspense gótico, saga familiar y ciencia ficción

1945. Diez días después del final de la guerra, Laura Chase se tira por un puente y deja a Iris, su hermana mayor, un manuscrito titulado «El asesino ciego». Medio siglo más tarde, Iris reflexiona sobre su vida nada ejemplar, en particular sobre los acontecimientos que rodearon la trágica muerte de su hermana. El principal de ellos, la publicación de «El asesino ciego», una novela que le valió a Laura no sólo reconocimiento, sino también culto devoto, y que describe una arriesgada pasión amorosa en los años treinta entre una joven adinerada y un hombre que se ha dado a la fuga. A medida que el amor, el sacrificio y la traición complican la historia inventada y la real, los acontecimientos se precipitan hacia la catástrofe.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.

Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family’s history. Intertwined with Iris’s account are chapters from the scandalous novel that made Laura famous, in which two illicit lovers amuse each other by spinning a tale of a blind killer on a distant planet.

These richly layered stories-within-stories gradually illuminate the secrets that have long haunted the Chase family, coming together in a brilliant and astonishing final twist.

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than fifty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, part of the Massey Lecture series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. 

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La crítica ha dicho:

«Brillante, opulenta, Margaret Atwood es tanto una gran poeta como una gran creadora de ficciones». -John Updike, The New Yorker

«Absorbente. Una narración ejecutada con maestría». -The New York Times

«La primera gran novela del nuevo milenio». -Newsday

«Una novela atrevida, rebosante de imaginación y brillantemente ejecutada». -Kirkus Reviews

«Escalofriante, lírica, una de las obras más ambiciosas de la autora». -The Boston Globe

«Margaret Atwood domina el arte de crear ficciones densas y complejas a partir de narraciones cuidadosamente estratificadas, haciendo uso de toda una serie de recursos literarios». -The Guardian

«Los secretos de familia, la rivalidad entre hermanos, las argucias políticas y el malestar social, las promesas y las traiciones son los temas de la nueva y brillante novela de Atwood. [...] En cuanto a la valentía narrativa, Atwood supera incluso a El cuento de la criada y Alias Grace». -Publisher's Weekly