The Blind Assassin

First UK edition. Thick 8vo. Pp. [xii], 521, [3]. Black cloth, lettered and blocked in silver to spine; maroon endpapers. Pictorial dustwrapper designed by William Webb. Integral ribbon bookmark.

Signed and dated [Oct. 4 2000] by Author to title page. Publisher's bookmark laid-in.

Author's tenth novel. Winner of the 2000 Booker Prize for Fiction, and the 2001 Dashiell Hammett Award. Short-listed for the 2000 Governor General's Award, the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction, and the 2002 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Named 'Best Novel of 2000' by TIME Magazine and included in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.

"Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." A tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under mysterious circumstances in its opening pages. Framed by a novel within a novel, a roman à clef attributed to Laura but published by the surviving sister, Iris. "A tour de force." –Chicago Tribune