A 2000 Booker Prize winner structured as a series of nested narratives: a memoir, a pulp science fiction story, and a secret love affair. The forbidden wartime romance at the center of Iris Chase's story is gradually revealed through indirection and misdirection; when its true shape becomes clear, the love is more devastating for having been hidden. Atwood at her most architecturally ambitious.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.