An eighty-two year old widow recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister's death, gradually revealing carefully guarded family secrets. Among these is "The Blind Assassin", an explicit novel that earned her dead sister not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. As this novel-within-a-novel twists and turns through love and jealousy, self-sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real narrative, as both move closer to war and catastrophe.

Winner of the Booker Prize