![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Chase sisters grow up burdened by their family's glamorous legacy, which begins to crumble as the years go by the family struggles to make ends meet during the Great Depression, and the button factory is partially destroyed in an act of arson. His surviving heir, Norval Chase, returns from war traumatized, and Norval's longsuffering wife, Liliana,dies while her daughters Iris and Laura are still young girls. Iris's grandfather, Benjamin Chase, makes a fortune after establishing a button factory in Port Ticonderoga, but experiences personal tragedy when two of his sons die fighting in World War I. The man also makes money writing pulp fiction, which forms the basis for the story-within-a-story-within-a-story: over the course of their affair, the man tells the woman a story about a fantastical city called Sakiel-Norn, and the love story that unfolds there between a blind assassin and a mute, sacrificial virgin.Ītwood's novel, then, cuts back and forth between all of these storylines, which intersect in both real and symbolic ways. In it, two unnamed lovers carry on a secret affair,with occasional spats arising from the couple's very different backgrounds the woman comes from wealth and privilege, while the man embraces socialist principles and is on the run from the police. The second and third narrative threads both unfold within Laura's novel, which we ultimately learn was actually penned by Iris. ![]()
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