一樁離奇的車禍,揭發了一段隱藏多年的秘密!蘿拉到底是死於自殺還是意外?事隔數十年,艾莉絲用黑色幽默的語調,述說她與丈夫、情人以及妹妹之間糾纏不清的感情糾葛;掀起一個又一個驚人內幕!
蘿拉死後兩年,經由艾莉絲整理出版了一本署名為蘿拉的小說《盲眼刺客》,描寫一個遭警察全力緝捕的左翼分子,為取悅幽會的女孩,如同《一千零一夜》裡逃避死亡的主角,一次次編造辛克龍星球的奇幻故事。故事中暗藏洶湧的愛情、背叛與死亡。
雙線並行,劇中劇的結構,輕鬆易讀的句子,展現瑪格麗特龐大的寫作企圖。是愛讀小說的人不可不讀的佳作!本書極力挑戰讀者的想像空間,不僅讓人感嘆作者驚人的想像力;而故事高潮起伏、引人入勝的情節,更讓讀者不忍釋手,無法停止閱讀。
本中文書介出自天培出版社《盲眼刺客》
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace
Laura Chase’s older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister’s tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following.
Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on 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. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama.
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