Type: Book Reading
Author: Margaret Atwood
Event; World Book Night
Book: Excerpt from The Blind Assassin
Location: London, England
Year: 2011

Margaret Atwood is an acclaimed Canadian novelist, poet and essayist best known for "The Handmaid’s Tale" and the Booker Prize-winning novels "The Blind Assassin" and "The Testaments". In this intimate presentation, Margaret Atwood reads from "The Blind Assassin". Hearing the passage in her voice reveals the dry wit, carefully controlled rhythm and subtle emotional tension in her intricate storytelling. Bringing distinctive wit, rhythm and emotional restraint, Atwood is iconic.