The blind slaughterer

Number of pages: 707 Margaret Atwood weaves in The Blind Killer threads of mysterious Gothic narration, with romance, dystopia, in a captivating violent novel. The story begins with a mysterious death - suspected suicide - suffered by a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945. Years later, her sister Iris recalls their childhood memories together, and the dramatic deaths that revolve around their eccentric wealthy family history. Intertwined with it are chapters from Laura's scandalous novel - published after her death - about two runaway lovers, one of whom narrates to the other additional chapters of a story of a blind killer taking place on another planet and in a different time dimension. These overlapping and intergenerational stories gradually reveal the secrets that the Chase family struggled to hide. All of this ends with a shocking plot twist, making its impact on the soul lasting and unforgettable.