The Blind Assassin
Canadian novelist, born 1939. Won the Booker Prize in 2000 and 2019.
The Blind Assassin is a 2000 novel by Margaret Atwood. It won the Booker Prize in 2000.
In family saga
On 3 of the 19 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- First published
- 2000
- Length
- 656 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize winner, 2000
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2001
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Family saga, Postmodern
Is The Blind Assassin worth reading?
3 of the 19 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Booker Prize and All-Time 100 Novels.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2000) | Winner | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2001) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of The Blind Assassin
The edition we link to is the Virago paperback (2019), 656 pages.
- Publisher
- Virago (paperback, 2019)
- Pages
- 656
- ISBN
- 9780349013060
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Blind Assassin
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 56% of the points available on prize lists, against 10% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like The Blind Assassin
If you liked The Blind Assassin, try The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments or Oryx and Crake.
