Which novel by Margaret Atwood won the 2000 Booker Prize?

Margaret Atwood won the 2000 Booker Prize for her novel “The Blind Assassin.”

The Canadian novel is a layered work of historical fiction set mainly in Ontario and Toronto. It follows Iris Chase as an old woman looking back over her family’s history, including her relationship with her sister Laura and her unhappy marriage to Richard Griffen.

A distinctive feature is the novel-within-a-novel also called “The Blind Assassin.” Its shifting narratives, newspaper reports and memories gradually connect private family secrets with major events in Canadian history, including the On-to-Ottawa Trek and a 1934 Communist rally in Toronto.

Atwood had previously been shortlisted for the Booker with “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Cat’s Eye,” but “The Blind Assassin” became her first winning novel. It was published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart and later received the Hammett Prize in 2001.