For more than a quarter of a century, the outstanding Canadian writer Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) has been creating works of amazing originality and depth, repeatedly awarded with prestigious literary awards. The Blind Assassin, which won the Booker Prize in 2000, is actually several novels nested within each other. Atwood takes the reader through the entire 20th century, and only at the end do we begin to understand that the story the author is telling us is not exactly what really happened. To be more precise, everything was much worse...