En smakebit på søndag: The Blind Assassin av Margaret Atwood

Forrige uke startet jeg sammen med Ina på The Blind Assassin av Margaret Atwood. Det er hennes første Atwood, og jeg er spent på hvordan vi kommer til å like denne da jeg har jo Atwood som en favoritt.

Fra baksideteksten:

In The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood weaves together stands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative. The novel begins with the mysterious death - a possible suicide - of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945. Decades later, Laura's sister, Iris, recounts her memories of their childhood and 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 tat have long haunted the Chase family, coming together in a brilliant and astonishing final twist. 

For whom am I writing this? For myself? I think not. I have no picture of myself reading it over at a later time, later time having become problematical. For some stranger, in the future, after I'm dead? I hve no such ambition, or no such hope.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for, when they scrawl their names in the snow.

I'm not as swift as I was. My fingers are stiff and clumsy, the pen wavers and rables, it takes me a long time to form the words. And yet I persist, hunched over as if sewing by moonlight.

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