Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. Associations: Margaret Atwood was President of the Writers' Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, and was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre (English Speaking) from 1984-1986. She and Graeme Gibson are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International. Ms. Atwood is also a current Vice-President of PEN International.
The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making.
In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope—wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy—is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan War after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumors, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay, simultaneously. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters, and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and—curiously—twelve of her maids.
In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged maids, asking: "What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?" In Atwood's dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. With wit and verve, drawing on the story-telling and poetic talent for which she herself is renowned, she gives Penelope new life and reality—and sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.
The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin.
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around - and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in... for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes.
At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s, The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience.
It opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist.
For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The Blind Assassin proves once again that Atwood is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of our time. Like The Handmaid's Tale, it is destined to become a classic.
MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
Margaret Atwood
A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers – a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers’ reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is hallucinating; Amanda is in shock from a Painballer attack; and Ivory Bill yearns for the provocative Swift Fox, who is flirting with Zeb. Meanwhile, giant Pigoons and malevolent Painballers threaten to attack.
Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood’s unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world and holds up a skewed mirror to our own possible future.
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
Margaret Atwood
When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.
With The Testaments, the wait is over.
Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.
"Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." --Margaret Atwood
An alternate cover edition of ISBN 978-0385543781 can be found here.
Dearly
Margaret Atwood
A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood
In Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived.
While many are familiar with Margaret Atwood’s fiction—including her groundbreaking and bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, among others—she has, from the beginning of her career, been one of our most significant contemporary poets. And she is one of the very few writers equally accomplished in fiction and poetry. This collection is a stunning achievement that will be appreciated by fans of her novels and poetry readers alike.
Cat’s Eye
Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, and artist, and woman—but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knots of her life.
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.
An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories?
Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases best-selling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.
Oryx & Crake (MaddAddam #1)
Margaret Atwood
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, now calls himself Snowman and lives in a tree, wrapped in old bed sheets. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility.
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
Margaret Atwood
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life—has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.
Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers...
Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away...
By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Margaret Atwood
A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy.
A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire, and a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite.
In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle - and also by herself, in her award-winning novel Alias Grace. In Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.
Bluebeard's Egg
Margaret Atwood
By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard'S Egg glows with childhood memories, the reality of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty men and women inflict on each other. Here is the familiar outer world of family summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mundane lives, and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them-the intimately personal, the fantastic, the shockingly real...whether it's what lives in a mysterious locked room or the secret feelings we all conceal. In this dramatic and far-ranging collection, Margaret Atwood proves why she is a true master of the genre.
Surfacing
Margaret Atwood
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose. Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented... and becoming whole.
Bodily Harm
Margaret Atwood
Rennie Wilford is a freelance journalist who takes an assignment in the Caribbean in the hopes of recuperating from her recently shattered life. On the tiny island of St. Antoine, she tumbles into a corrupt world where no one is what they seem, where her rules for survival no longer apply. This is a thoroughly gripping novel of intrigue and betrayal, which explores human defensiveness, the lust for power both sexual and political, and the need for a compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love. The enigma unfolds as it would for any innocent bystander swept up by events, bringing along the scruples, and the fears, of the past.
My Evil Mother
Margaret Atwood
Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed. But as the daughter of this bewitching homemaker comes of age and her mother’s claims become more and more outlandish, she begins to question everything she once took for granted.
The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends, Tony, Charis, and Roz. All three "have lost men, spirit, money, and time to their old college acquaintance, Zenia. At various times, and in various emotional disguises, Zenia has insinuated her way into their lives and practically demolished them. To Tony, who almost lost her husband and jeopardized her academic career, Zenia is 'a lurking enemy commando.' To Roz, who did lose her husband and almost her magazine, Zenia is 'a cold and treacherous bitch.' To Charis, who lost a boyfriend, quarts of vegetable juice and some pet chickens, Zenia is a kind of zombie, maybe 'soulless'" (Lorrie Moore, New York Times Book Review). In love and war, illusion and deceit, Zenia's subterranean malevolence takes us deep into her enemies' pasts.
The Tent
Margaret Atwood
One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, these highly imaginative, vintage Atwoodian mini-fictions speak on a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision.
In pieces ranging in length from a mere paragraph to several pages, Atwood gives a sly pep talk to the ambitious young; writes about the disconcerting experience of looking at old photos of ourselves; gives us Horatio's real views on Hamlet; and examines the boons and banes of orphanhood. Bring Back Mom: An Invocation; explores what life was really like for the "perfect" homemakers of days gone by, and in The Animals Reject Their Names she runs history backward, with surprising results.
Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, The Tent is vintage Atwood, enhanced by the author's delightful drawings.
Life Before Man
Margaret Atwood
Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate, her gentle, indecisive husband, is planning to leave her for Lesje, a perennial innocent who prefers dinosaurs to men. Hanging over them all is the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover...and the dizzying threat of three lives careening inevitably toward the same climax.
Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
Margaret Atwood
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together
Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories--some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine--explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood's characteristic insight, wit and intellect.
The two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory on a perfect summer evening; "Impatient Griselda" explores alienation and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic; and "My Evil Mother" touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. At the heart of the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long life of uncommon love--and what comes after.
Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection Stone Mattress, Atwood showcases both her creativity and her humanity in these remarkable tales which by turns delight, illuminate, and quietly devastate.
Wilderness Tips
Margaret Atwood
In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the single instant that shapes a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of adolescence through the passions of youth into the precarious complexities of middle age. By superimposing the past on the present, Atwood paints interior landscapes shaped by time, regret, and life's lost chances, endowing even the banal with a sense of mystery. Richly layered and disturbing, poignant at times and scathingly witty at others, the stories in Wilderness Tips take us into the strange and secret places of the heart and inform the familiar world in which we live with truths that cut to the bone.
Contents:
True trash --
Hairball --
Isis in darkness --
The bog man --
Death by landscape --
Uncles --
The age of lead --
Weight --
Wilderness tips --
Hack Wednesday.
Moral Disorder and Other Stories
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is acknowledged as one of the foremost writers of our time. In Moral Disorder she has created a series of interconnected stories that trace the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it--those of parents, of siblings, of children, of friends, of enemies, of teachers, and even of animals. As in a photograph album, time is measured in sharp, clearly observed moments. The '30s, the '40s, the '50s, the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, and the present --all are here. The settings vary: large cities, suburbs, farms, northern forests.
The first story, "The Bad News," is set in the present, as a couple no longer young situate themselves in a larger world no longer safe. The narrative then switches time as the central character moves through childhood and adolescence in "The Art of Cooking and Serving," "The Headless Horseman," and "My Last Duchess." We follow her into young adulthood in "The Other Place" and then through a complex relationship, traced in four of the stories: "Monopoly," "Moral Disorder," "White Horse," and "The Entities." The last two stories, "The Labrador Fiasco" and "The Boys at the Lab," deal with the heartbreaking old age of parents but circle back again to childhood, to complete the cycle.
By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, tragic, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwood's celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage. As the New York Times has said: "The reader has the sense that Atwood has complete access to her people's emotional histories, complete understanding of their hearts and imaginations."
Lady Oracle
Margaret Atwood
Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why she is considered to be one of the most important and accomplished writers of our time.
Hag-Seed
Margaret Atwood
When Felix is deposed as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival by his devious assistant and longtime enemy, his production of The Tempest is canceled and he is heartbroken. Reduced to a life of exile in rural southern Ontario—accompanied only by his fantasy daughter, Miranda, who died twelve years ago—Felix devises a plan for retribution.
Eventually he takes a job teaching Literacy Through Theatre to the prisoners at the nearby Burgess Correctional Institution, and is making a modest success of it when an auspicious star places his enemies within his reach. With the help of their own interpretations, digital effects, and the talents of a professional actress and choreographer, the Burgess Correctional Players prepare to video their Tempest. Not surprisingly, they view Caliban as the character with whom they have the most in common. However, Felix has another twist in mind, and his enemies are about to find themselves taking part in an interactive and illusion-ridden version of The Tempest that will change their lives forever. But how will Felix deal with his invisible Miranda’s decision to take a part in the play?
The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage à la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach...
The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and the desire to be consumed.
Damızlık Kızın Öyküsü
Margaret Atwood
Bir kadın bir sabah kalksa, işe gitmeden önce her zaman sigara aldığı dükkana uğrasa ve kendisine kredi kartının geçerli olmadığı söylense, ardından işten atılsa ve bunların sadece kadın olduğu için başına geldiğini öğrense neler hisseder?
Evet, olan olmuştur. Bunca mücadele boşa gitmiştir. Kadın gene erkeğin bakımına muhtaç, ona hizmetle yükümlü bir yarı köledir. Hükümranlığı eviçi ile sınırlandırılmıştır. Üstelik artık ortada fazla çocuk da yoktur. Hava kirliliği, kimyasal atıklar, nükleer sızıntılar kısırlığa yol açmakta, doğan az sayıdaki çocuk ise sakat olduğundan imha edilmektedir. Bu durumda kadın Koloniler'e gönderilmek, Hizmetçilik ya da Fahişelik yapmak dışında dördüncü bir seçenekle karşı karşıyadır: Komutanlar'a sağlıklı yavrular üretmek.
Fourteen Days
Margaret Atwood
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a surprising and irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbours has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice-from Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng.
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other - become real neighbours. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas Preston, and a star-studded list of contributors create a beautiful ode to the people who couldn't get away from the city when the pandemic hit. A dazzling, heartwarming and ultimately surprising narrative, Fourteen Days reveals how beneath the horrible loss and suffering, some communities managed to become stronger.
Includes writing from:
Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston, Celeste Ng, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, John Grisham, Diana Gabaldon, Ishmael Reed, Meg Wolitzer, Luis Alberto Urrea, James Shapiro, Sylvia Day, Mary Pope Osborne, Monique Truong, Hampton Sides, R. L. Stine, Scott Turow, Tommy Orange, and more!
El año del diluvio
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood, una de los novelistas más prestigiosos de la narrativa mundial de hoy en día, plasma en El Año del Diluvio, su última novela, una visión postapocalíptica del mundo tras una catástrofe global. Como en su novela anterior, Oryx y Crake (algunos de cuyos personajes reaparecen en la presente obra), Atwood describe el horror de un mundo en el que la humanidad, en aras del progreso científico y tecnológico, no sólo altera el medio ambiente sino que se autodestruye. Siempre crítica con los problemas del mundo actual, la autora describe, en esta novela de anticipación especulativa, la catástrofe planetaria resultante del descontrolado abuso de las industrias farmacéuticas y de los poderes políticos y económicos que desoyen los alegatos de las ciencias ecológicas. Narrada desde el punto de vista de dos mujeres, la joven Ren y Toby, El año del Diluvio cuenta la epopeya de quienes sobreviven al desastre y, libres de la decadencia moral en que la lucha de sectas y religiones había sumido a la humanidad, emprenden una nueva vida.
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
Margaret Atwood
This brilliant selection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient—seeks answers to Burning Questions such as:
• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?
• How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?
• How can we live on our planet?
• Is it true? And is it fair?
• What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?
In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom, from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) and how to define granola, we have no better guide than Atwood to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. Describing her own remarkable vision, the author writes in the foreword, “I’ve chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids. The maids form a chanting and singing Chorus, which focuses on two questions that must pose themselves after any close reading of the Odyssey: What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to? The story as told in the Odyssey doesn’t hold water: there are too many inconsistencies. I’ve always been haunted by the hanged maids and, in The Penelopiad, so is Penelope herself.” One of the high points of literary fiction in 2005, this critically acclaimed story found a vast audience and is finally available in paperback.
Morning In The Burned House: Poems
Margaret Atwood
The renowned poet and author of The Handmaid’s Tale “brings a swift, powerful energy” to this “intimate and immediate” poetry collection ( Publishers Weekly ). These beautifully crafted poems, by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate, are some of Margaret Atwood’s most accomplished and versatile works. Some draw on history and some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, more personal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death. Generous, searing, compassionate, and disturbing, this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday, between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.
Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
Margaret Atwood
A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago's 50th birthday, featuring NEW AND ORIGINAL STORIES by Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, Kirsty Logan, Caroline O'Donoghue, Chibundu Onuzo, Helen Oyeyemi, Rachel Seiffert, Kamila Shamsie and Ali Smith - introduced by Sandi Toksvig.
DRAGON. TYGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood; words that tell a story.
In this blazing cauldron of a book, fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for our time.
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Margaret Atwood
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors that writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the book's title: if a writer is to be seen as "gifted", who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Margaret Atwood
Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn’t talk about high finance or managing money; instead, she goes far deeper to explore debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. By looking at how debt has informed our thinking from preliterate times to the present day, from the stories we tell of revenge and sin to the way we order social relationships, Atwood argues that the idea of what we owe may well be built into the human imagination as one of its most dynamic metaphors. Her final lecture addresses the notion of a debt to nature and the need to find new ways of interacting with the natural world before it is too late.
Power Politics: Poems (A List)
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. Thirty years later it still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple and universal. Clear, direct, wry, unrelenting —Atwood's poetic powers are honed to perfection in this important early work.
The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood
From Booker Prize–winner and #1 national bestseller Margaret Atwood, The MaddAddam Trilogy is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. With breathtaking command of her brilliantly conceived material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, she projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. In the tradition of The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood envision a near future that is both beyond our imagining and all too a world devastated by uncontrolled genetic engineering and a widespread plague, with only a few remaining humans fighting for survival. Combining adventure, humour, romance and superb storytelling that is at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world, MaddAddam is a moving and dramatic conclusion to this internationally celebrated dystopian trilogy.
The Door
Margaret Atwood
The Door, Margaret Atwood’s first book of poetry since her award-winning Morning in the Burned House, is a magnificent achievement. These fifty lucid, urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political, viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality.
Brave and compassionate, The Door interrogates the certainties that we build our lives on, and reminds us once again of Margaret Atwood’s unique accomplishments as one of the finest and most celebrated writers of our time.
Der Report der Magd
Margaret Atwood
Im Jahr 2195 sind die Frauen eines totalitären Staates in Klassen eingeteilt. Sie fungieren als Hausfrauen, Gebärmaschinen und Sklavinnen. Doch die Magd Desfred, die einem Kommandanten und seiner kinderlosen Frau zugeteilt wurde, hat sich ihre Phantasie und Hoffnung auf ein anderes Leben bewahrt.
Der Report der Magd ist ein mehrfach ausgezeichneter dystopischer Roman von Margaret Atwood aus dem Jahr 1985. Das Buch wurde 1990 unter dem Titel "Die Geschichte der Dienerin" von Volker Schlöndorff verfilmt.
Het verhaal van de Dienstmaagd
Margaret Atwood
Het verhaal van de Dienstmaagd speelt zich af in een republiek waarvan het totalitaire regime naar de letter van het bijbelboek Genesis heerst. De maatschappijvorm die daaruit voortvloeit is op zijn zachtst gezegd bizar. De ‘Dienstmaagden’ vormen een van de nieuwe ‘klassen’ in deze strikt gereguleerde maatschappij. Ze hebben slechts één functie: het verzorgen van de voortplanting. Vanfred, de vertelster, behoort tot deze klasse en is gedwongen haar leven grotendeels in stilte door te brengen. Alleen ’s nachts in haar sobere kamer is ze vrij om zich over te geven aan haar illegale herinneringen: het lezen van boeken, haar eigen naam, het nu irrelevant geworden begrip ‘liefde’.
In een sobere stijl – Atwood op haar best – die afwisselend koele observatie, ontroering, wanhoop, hartstocht en wrange humor reflecteert, legt Vanfred het zwarte hart bloot dat schuilgaat achter de kalme façade van een establishment dat bepaalde reactionaire tendensen in onze maatschappij tot hun even logische als huiveringwekkende conclusie doordrijft.
La Servante écarlate
Margaret Atwood
Dans un futur peut-être proche, dans des lieux qui semblent familiers, l'Ordre a été restauré. L'Etat, avec le soutien de sa milice d'Anges noirs, applique à la lettre les préceptes d'un Evangile revisité. Dans cette société régie par l'oppression, sous couvert de protéger les femmes, la maternité est réservée à la caste des Servantes, tout de rouge vêtues. L'une d'elle raconte son quotidien de douleur, d'angoisse et de soumission. Son seul refuge, ce sont les souvenirs d'une vie révolue, d'un temps où elle était libre, où elle avait encore un nom.
Angel Catbird, Vol. 1 (Angel Catbird, #1)
Margaret Atwood
Lauded novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate on one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of the year!On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by his own experiment and merges with the DNA of a cat and an owl. What follows is a humorous, action-driven, pulp-inspired superhero adventure-- with a lot of cat puns.Published in over thirty-five countries, Margaret Atwood is one of the most important living writers of our day and is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her work has won the Man Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, Premio Mondello, and more. Angel Catbird is her first graphic novel series.Atwood's The Blind Assassin was named one of Time magazine's 100 best English-language novels published since 1923 and her recent MaddAddam Trilogy is currently being adapted into an HBO television show by Darren Aronofsky
Los testamentos (El cuento de la criada, #2)
Margaret Atwood
Cuando las puertas de la furgoneta se cerraron de golpe tras Offred al final de El cuento de la criada, los lectores no tenían forma de saber cuál iba a ser su futuro: la libertad, la prisión o la muerte.
Con la publicación de Los testamentos, la espera ha terminado.
Margaret Atwood recupera la historia quince años después de que Offred se adentrara en lo desconocido, con los testimonios asombrosos de tres narradoras del mundo de Gilead.
La mujer comestible
Margaret Atwood
Irónica, ingeniosa, divertida e inteligente, La mujer comestible narra la fabulosa transformación de una joven durante los días que preceden a su boda. Marian, a punto de alcanzar el sueño de cualquier mujer de su edad y condición, sufre una paulatina desintegración de su ego, al tiempo que tiene unos comportamientos que a duras penas pueden explicarse con la razón.
Cut and Thirst
Margaret Atwood
Three women scheme to avenge an old friend in a darkly witty short story about loyalty, ambition, and delicious retribution by Margaret Atwood, the #1 bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale.
Myrna, Leonie, and Chrissy meet every Thursday to sample fine cheeses, to reminisce about their former lives as professors, and lately, to muse about murder. Decades ago, a vicious cabal of male poets contrived—quite publicly and successfully—to undermine the writing career, confidence, and health of their dear friend Fern. Now, after Fern has taken a turn for the worse, her three old friends decide that it’s finally time to strike back—in secret, of course, since Fern is far too gentle to approve of a vendetta. All they need is a plan with suitably Shakespearean drama. But as sweet and satisfying as revenge can be, it’s not always so cut and dried.
The Circle Game (A List)
Margaret Atwood
As a part of the launch of the new A List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Governor General's Literary Award–winning The Circle Game , with an introduction by Suzanne Buffam. The appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know in later works, such as Power Politics , Bodily Harm , and Alias Grace . Atwood writes compassionately about the risks of love in a technological age, and the quest for identity in a universe that cannot quite be trusted. Containing many of Atwood's best and most famous poems, The Circle Game won the 1966 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and rapidly attained an international reputation as a classic of modern poetry.
Happy Endings
Margaret Atwood
Atwood's short story includes six different stories, labeled A to F, which each quickly summarize the lives of its characters, eventually culminating in death. The names of characters recur throughout the stories, and the stories reference each other (for example, "everything continues as in 'A'"), challenging narrative conventions. In addition, the story explores themes of domesticity, welfare, and success.
L'altra Grace
Margaret Atwood
Nel 1843 il Canada è sconvolto da un atroce fatto di cronaca nera: l'omicidio del ricco possidente Thomas Kinnear e della sua amante, la governante Nancy Montgomery. Imputata insieme a un altro servo, la sedicenne Grace Marks viene spedita in carcere e, sospettata di insanità mentale, in manicomio. A lungo oggetto dei giudizi contrastanti dell'opinione pubblica - propensa a vedere in lei ora una santa, ora una carnefice -la protagonista di questo romanzo può finalmente raccontare la propria vita al giovane dottore Simon Jordan. Convinto di mettere le proprie conoscenze al servizio della verità sul caso, e al tempo stesso contribuire al progresso della scienza psicologica, Jordan non potrà fare a meno di restare ammaliato da questa personalità complessa e inafferrabile. Il dialogo che si instaura tra i due si trasforma nel ritratto psicologico di una persona due volte vittima del sistema sociale - in quanto povera e in quanto donna - e assurge a denuncia delle enormi contraddizioni di una società maschilista e tormentata da conflitti interni perché incapace di accettare l'"altro".
O Conto da Aia
Margaret Atwood
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O romance distópico O conto da aia, de Margaret Atwood, se passa num futuro muito próximo e tem como cenário uma república onde não existem mais jornais, revistas, livros nem filmes. As universidades foram extintas. Também já não há advogados, porque ninguém tem direito a defesa. Os cidadãos considerados criminosos são fuzilados e pendurados mortos no Muro, em praça pública, para servir de exemplo enquanto seus corpos apodrecem à vista de todos. Para merecer esse destino, não é preciso fazer muita coisa – basta, por exemplo, cantar qualquer canção que contenha palavras proibidas pelo regime, como “liberdade”. Nesse Estado teocrático e totalitário, as mulheres são as vítimas preferenciais, anuladas por uma opressão sem precedentes. O nome dessa república é Gilead, mas já foi Estados Unidos da América.
Uma das obras mais importantes da premiada escritora canadense, conhecida por seu ativismo político, ambiental e em prol das causas femininas, O conto da aia foi escrito em 1985 e inspirou a série homônima (The Handmaid’s Tale, no original), produzida pelo canal de streaming Hulu em 2017.
As mulheres de Gilead não têm direitos. Elas são divididas em categorias, cada qual com uma função muito específica no Estado. A Offred coube a categoria de aia, o que significa pertencer ao governo e existir unicamente para procriar, depois que uma catástrofe nuclear tornou estéril um grande número de pessoas. E sem dúvida, ainda que vigiada dia e noite e ceifada em seus direitos mais básicos, o destino de uma aia ainda é melhor que o das não-mulheres, como são chamadas aquelas que não podem ter filhos, as homossexuais, viúvas e feministas, condenadas a trabalhos forçados nas colônias, lugares onde o nível de radiação é mortífero.
Com esta história assustadora, Margaret Atwood leva o leitor a refletir sobre liberdade, direitos civis, poder, a fragilidade do mundo tal qual o conhecemos, o futuro e, principalmente, o presente.
A História de Uma Serva (A História de Uma Serva, #1)
Margaret Atwood
Uma visão marcante da nossa sociedade radicalmente transformada por uma revolução teocrática. A História de Uma Serva tornou-se um dos livros mais influentes e mais lidos do nosso tempo.
Extremistas religiosos de direita derrubaram o governo norte-americano e queimaram a Constituição. A América é agora Gileade, um estado policial e fundamentalista onde as mulheres férteis, conhecidas como Servas, são obrigadas a conceber filhos para a elite estéril.
Defred é uma Serva na República de Gileade e acaba de ser transferida para a casa do enigmático Comandante e da sua ciumenta mulher. Pode ir uma vez por dia aos mercados, cujas tabuletas agora são imagens, porque as mulheres estão proibidas de ler. Tem de rezar para que o Comandante a engravide, já que, numa época de grande decréscimo do número de nascimentos, o valor de Defred reside na sua fertilidade, e o fracasso significa o exílio nas Colónias, perigosamente poluídas. Defred lembra-se de um tempo em que vivia com o marido e a filha e tinha um emprego, antes de perder tudo, incluindo o nome. Essas memórias misturam-se agora com ideias perigosas de rebelião e amor.
Vulgo Grace
Margaret Atwood
Ganhador do Prêmio Giller no Canadá (1996) e do Prêmio Mondello na Itália (1997).
Um dos principais romances da premiada escritora Margaret Atwood, autora de O conto da aia, que deu origem à elogiada série The Handmaid's Tale, Vulgo Grace também vai virar série, pela Netflix. A partir de um caso real ocorrido no Canadá na década de 1840, o livro conta a trajetória de Grace Marks, uma criada condenada à prisão perpétua por ter ajudado a assassinar o patrão, Thomas Kinnear, e a governanta da casa onde trabalhava, Nancy Montgomery.
A história tem início quando a protagonista já está presa. James McDermott, também condenado pelas mortes, há muito fora enforcado. Grace mora no presídio, mas devido ao bom comportamento, trabalha durante o dia na casa do governador da penitenciária em uma Toronto do século XIX com costumes bastante tradicionais. Grace costura e ajuda em alguns serviços mais leves.
Apesar de iletrada, os relatos que Grace faz, de próprio punho, em diários e cartas, e seu bom comportamento em todas as instituições por onde passou, impressionaram clérigos, médicos e políticos da época. Vários trabalharam incansavelmente a favor da jovem, elaborando petições para sua libertação, procurando opinião clínica para dar suporte ao seu caso.
Em seu esforço para descobrir a verdade, o Dr. Simon Jordan, um jovem médico estudioso de doenças mentais, faz visitas constantes à jovem prisioneira e, em um misto de simpatia e incredulidade, utiliza as ferramentas então rudimentares da psicologia para chegar cada vez mais perto do que realmente ocorreu.
Teria sido ela ludibriada por James McDermott, humilhada demais por Nancy Montgomery, acometida de um acesso de raiva ou o mundo simplesmente estaria sendo injusto ao condená-la à prisão perpétua? Respostas que a autora sabe guardar muito bem até o fim do livro.
Les testaments (La Servante Ecarlate #2)
Margaret Atwood
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.
Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets.
As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.
Por último, el corazón
Margaret Atwood
Víctimas de la debacle económica, Stan y Charmaine se instalan en el coche tras perder su casa. Malviven gracias a los escasos ingresos que ella consigue en un bar de poca monta. Es entonces cuando llama su atención un anuncio acerca del Proyecto Positrón, un experimento social en el que los habitantes de la idílica ciudad de Consiliencia se dividen en dos grupos que alternan su modus vivendi cada treinta días: mientras el cincuenta por ciento se recluye en la Penitenciaría Positrón para mantener el sistema, la otra mitad disfruta de plena libertad y lleva un estilo de vida propio de la clase media. Al cabo de un mes, intercambian sus roles: los libres ingresan en prisión y los encarcelados se instalan en las viviendas que ocupaban los nuevos reclusos, haciendo uso común de todos los objetos, enseres y aparatos. Agotado el entusiasmo inicial, Stan y Charmaine no tardan en percatarse de que Consiliencia no es el paraíso que habían imaginado y pronto se ven envueltos en una serie de aventuras disparatadas, atrapados en un torbellino de lujuria que les hará cuestionarse sus valores y sentimientos más profundos.
Dueña de una de las mentes más lúcidas del panorama literario actual, Margaret Atwood no es sólo una institución de las letras canadienses, sino también una figura relevante que se ha volcado por igual en la promoción de la literatura y la protección del medioambiente. Esta novela, su última obra publicada, se inscribe en el ámbito de la ficción especulativa, género en el que Atwood ha cosechado algunos de los mayores éxitos de su formidable bibliografía.
La desbordante imaginación de Atwood, arropada por un mordaz sentido del humor, da vida a una novela que, si bien gira en torno a un fenómeno tan actual como la progresiva extinción de la clase media, incide también en los entresijos de la pareja moderna, desvelando de forma inquietante su intimidad, sus crisis, sus demonios y fantasías. Una obra punzante de uno de los escritores más talentosos de la narrativa contemporánea.
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope & Odysseus (Text Myth Series)
Margaret Atwood
In a splendid contemporary twist, Margaret Atwood tells Penelope's story.In Homer's account, Penelope is the constant wife. It is she who rules Odysseus's kingdom of Ithaca during his twenty-year absence at the Trojan War. She raises their wayward son and fends off over a hundred insistent suitors. When Odysseus finally returns-having vanquished monsters, slept with goddesses and endured many other well-documented hardships-he kills the suitors and also, curiously, twelve of Penelope's maids. Margaret Atwood tells the story through Penelope and her twelve hanged maids, asking: 'What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?' It's a dazzling, playful retelling, as wise and compassionate as it is haunting; as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. The Myths series gathers a diverse group of the finest writers of our time to provide a contemporary take on our most enduring myths. 'The Penelopiad shows Atwood making off with an especially well-guarded cultural treasure-and making it new, as she always does.' Independent Weekly
On Cats: An Anthology
Margaret Atwood
For centuries, cats have been worshipped, adored and mistrusted in equal measure. This beautiful gift book contains a selection of essays, stories, and poems on cats by writers from across the ages.In these pages, writers reflect on the curious feline qualities that inspire such devotion in their owners, even when it seems one-sided. Cats’ affections are hard-won and often fickle. Freud considered his cat an embodiment of true egoism; Hilaire Belloc found peace in his feline companion’s complacency; and Hemingway—a famous cat-lover—wrote of drinking with his eleven cats and the pleasant distraction they gave him.Edward Gorey can’t turn down a stray despite the trouble they cause him, and admits he has no idea what they’re thinking about; Muriel Spark gives practical advice on how to teach a cat to play ping-pong; Nikola Tesla, who helped design the modern electricity supply system, describes a seminal experience with a cat that first sparked his fascination with electricity; and Caitlin Moran considers the unexpected feelings of loss after the death of her family cat.These writers, and many others (including Mary Gaitskill, Alice Walker, Ursula K. Le Guin, John Keats, James Bowen, Lynne Truss, and more), paint a joyful portrait of cats and their mysterious and loveable ways. As Hemingway wrote, “one cat leads to another.” The book features six black-and-white cat portraits by photographer Elliot Ross.
I testamenti
Margaret Atwood
"Il nostro tempo insieme sta per cominciare, mio lettore. Può darsi che vedrai queste pagine come un fraglie scrigno da aprire con la massima cura. Può darsi che le strapperai o le brucerai: con le parole accade spesso".
Hai fra le mani un'arma pericolosa, caricat con i segreti di tre donne di Gilead. Stanno rischiando la vita per te. Per tutti noi.
Prima di entrare nel loro mondo, forse vorrai armarti anche di questi pensieri:
"La conoscenza è potere".
"La Storia non si ripete, ma fa rima con sé stessa".
Nueve cuentos malvados
Margaret Atwood
Al final de Nueve cuentos malvados, Margaret Atwood advierte que usar la palabra «cuento» para una narración breve lo aleja de cierto realismo social al tiempo que lo acerca al mundo del cuento popular, los cuentos de hadas y los cuentacuentos de antaño. Atwood dibuja sobre esta premisa el terreno de exploración literaria de esos nueve cuentos en los que aparecen vampiros, seres poseídos y fantasmas mezclados con personajes y situaciones de la vida cotidiana.
Así, una escritora de literatura fantástica que ha enviudado recientemente sobrevive a una tormentosa noche de invierno guiada por la voz de su difunto marido; una anciana aquejada por el síndrome de Charles Bonnet asume la presencia de las criaturas liliputienses que ha creado su imaginación, mientras un grupo populista recién fundado se congrega ante la residencia de la tercera edad donde vive para asaltar el recinto y prenderle fuego; una mujer con una malformación congénita es tomada por un vampiro, y un estromatolito con mil novecientos millones de años de antigüedad venga un delito cometido tiempo atrás.
En esta extraordinaria colección de relatos, Margaret Atwood, una de las escritoras más prestigiosas de la actualidad, nos regala nueve cuentos inolvidables que revelan las facetas más grotescas y deliciosamente malvadas del ser humano. En ellos, Atwood despliega su humor más tenebroso para presentarnos variaciones sobre el tema de la vejez y la muerte. Por momentos estremecedores, siempre divertidos y llenos de reflexiones, estos Nueve cuentos malvados confirman a la autora canadiense como una incisiva cronista de nuestros impulsos más oscuros; su mirada cáustica, lúcida y de una gran humanidad es el elemento esencial de una prosa implacable, un faro que no deja de iluminarnos en estos tiempos de zozobra.
Dearly: New Poems
Margaret Atwood
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet.
By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.
Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognizable and celebrated themes, but distilled - from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens, from pressing political issues to myth and legend. It is a pure Atwood delight, and long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight, empathy and humour.
L'Odyssée de Pénélope
Margaret Atwood
For Penelope, Odysseus’s wife, running a kingdom while her husband is away fighting in the Trojan War is no simple matter. Already distressed that he had been lured away because of the shocking behavior of her beautiful cousin Helen, Penelope must also raise her wayward son, face scandalous rumors, and keep more than one hundred lustful, greedy, and bloodthirsty suitors at bay.
Il racconto dell'ancella
Margaret Atwood
In un mondo devastato dalle radiazioni atomiche, gli Stati Uniti sono divenuti uno Stato totalitario, basato sul controllo del corpo femminile. Difred, la donna che appartiene a Fred, ha solo un compito nella neonata Repubblica di Galaad: garantire una discendenza alla élite dominante. Il regime monoteocratico di questa società del futuro, infatti, è fondato sullo sfruttamento delle cosiddette ancelle, le uniche donne che dopo la catastrofe sono ancora in grado di procreare. Ma anche lo Stato più repressivo non riesce a schiacciare i desideri e da questo dipenderà la possibilità e, forse, il successo di una ribellione. Mito, metafora e storia si fondono per sferrare una satira energica contro i regimi totalitari. Ma non solo: c'è anche la volontà di colpire, con tagliente ironia, il cuore di una società meschinamente puritana che, dietro il paravento di tabù istituzionali, fonda la sua legge brutale sull'intreccio tra sessualità e politica. Quello che l'ancella racconta sta in un tempo di là da venire, ma interpella fortemente il presente.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Margaret Atwood
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now…
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.
Dancing Girls and Other Stories
Margaret Atwood
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale
This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Her men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms, different houses, or even different worlds. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who touch us deeply, evoking terror and laughter, compassion and recognition--and dramatically demonstrate why Margaret Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today.
The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home
Margaret Atwood
Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad.
Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toronto's a lot further away than it used to be. Clio suggests that Okie transport Sumatra across the border, because family is family. But coaching Okie by cellphone isn't easy, and Clio has some zombies of her own to contend with. Luckily she has some garden tools.
Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood team up for this unusual two-hander. Encompassing love, death, sex, and the meaning of family, The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home will surprise, delight, and convince you of the vital importance of keeping ready supplies of rhubarb and mini-wieners in your freezer at all times.
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Gileads døtre
Margaret Atwood
Gileads døtre fører videre Margaret Atwoods dystopiske og fascinerende fortelling om Offreds fremtid i Gilead.
Margaret Atwoods dystopi ble kjent over hele verden da HBO filmatiserte Tjenerinnens beretning som tv-serie. Gileads døtre er en nyskrevet og selvstendig fortsettelse av Tjenerinnens beretning. Endelig får sultne fans svar på hva som skjedde med Offred etter at hun steg inn i varebilen etter å ha blitt anklaget av Føreren og hans kone. Kan hun overvinne undertrykkelsen og bli fri, eller må hun i døden? Gileads døtre gir svar.
Gileads døtre utspiller seg femten år etter Tjenerinnens beretning og her hører vi tre andre kvinner fortelle om den kristne fundamentalistiske staten Gilead. Boken gis ut samtidig som den engelske utgaven.
Penelope: de mythe van de vrouw van Odysseus
Margaret Atwood
In een prachtige meeslepende hervertelling van de mythe van Odysseus en Penelope, zet Atwood een andere Penelope neer dan die we uit Odyssee kennen. Atwood geeft het woord aan Penelope zelf en aan de twaalf gehangen maagden, die een heel ander verhaal vertellen dan Odysseus.
Dit boek is onderdeel van de reeks MYTHEN.
De unieke reeks Mythen laat oude legenden op een eigentijdse wijze herleven. Een selectie van internationale topauteurs hervertelt een mythe op een moderne en memorabele manier. Zesendertig uitgevers werken in dit project samen. In het najaar van 2005 startte de reeks, waarbij jaarlijks twee nieuwe delen verschijnen.
Tjenerinnens beretning
Margaret Atwood
I en fjern fremtid, i republikken Gilead, lever befolkningen under et strengt, puritansk regime som resultat av lange tider med strålingskatastrofer, sykdommer og skremmende lave fødselstall. Fanatisk religiøse grupper har overtatt makten og innført et patriarkalsk diktatur som har fratatt kvinner alle deres rettigheter.
Her møter vi tjenerinnen Offred som lever som konkubine med kun én oppgave: å produsere barn. Hvis hun ikke adlyder, vil hun, som andre dissidenter, bli hengt eller sendt vekk for å dø en langsom død. Men selv ikke en undertrykkende stat kan utslette Offreds livsvilje eller hennes begjær til de to mennene som hennes fremtid avhenger av.
Opowieść podręcznej
Margaret Atwood
Świat jak z najgorszego koszmaru, gdzie reżim i ortodoksja są jedynym prawem. Freda jest Podręczną w Republice Gilead. Może opuszczać dom swojego Komendanta i jego Żony tylko raz dziennie, aby pójść na targ, gdzie wszystkie napisy zostały zastąpione przez obrazki, bo Podręcznym już nie wolno czytać. Co miesiąc musi pokornie leżeć i modlić się, by jej zarządca ją zapłodnił, bo w czasach malejącego przyrostu naturalnego tylko ciężarne Podręczne mają jakąś wartość.
Freda pamięta jeszcze, choć wydaje się to nierealne, że kiedyś miała kochającego męża, wychowywali córeczkę, miała pracę, własne pieniądze i mogła mówić. Ale tego świata już nie ma...
La semilla de la bruja
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood reinventa La tempestad de William Shakespeare en La semilla de la bruja, una novela que aboga por el poder de las palabras y que invita a no olvidar y a creer en la magia de la vida cotidiana.
«Cuando eres joven, crees que todo es posible. Te mueves en el presente, jugando con el tiempo como si fuera un juguete a tu disposición. Piensas que puedes deshacerte de cosas y personas, y aun no sabes bien que tienen la mala costumbre de volver.»
Margaret Atwood
Es un lunes cualquiera de enero de 2013 y Felix pasa el control de seguridad para acceder al centro correccional de Fletcher. Los guardias lo miran con simpatía y benevolencia; para ellos este hombre solo es el señor Duke, un cincuentón que en sus ratos libres se dedica a organizar funciones de teatro con los reclusos. El autor elegido siempre es Shakespeare, y este año el profesor les propone La tempestad.
Felix accede sin problemas al recinto de la cárcel, llevando consigo algo muy peligroso pero imposible de detectar a través de un escáner: son las palabras, aún vivas, robustas, sonoras, de una obra donde la venganza viaja a través del tiempo y se instala en el presente. De a poco, ensayo tras ensayo, los chicos de Fletcher, que quizá nunca antes habían oído hablar de Shakespeare, convierten la obra en algo muy personal. Ahí se encuentran con sus fantasmas y con algo de sí mismos que no sabían, pero hay más: Felix, ese profesor terco y a veces aburrido, el día del estreno de la obra también podrá vengarse de quien le arruinó en el pasado.
«En esta novela hay tanta exuberancia, pasión e imaginación que lo único que quiero es que Atwood reescriba todo Shakespeare.»
Viv Groskop, The Guardian
The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Box Set
Margaret Atwood
A box set of Margaret Atwood's bestselling companioned novels, The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.
In The Handmaid's Tale, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War and the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead's Commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. In The Testaments, set more than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, The Republic of Gilead maintains its repressive grip on power, but it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women come together, with potentially explosive results. This beautifully designed slipcase will make the perfect holiday and perennial gift.
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one option: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all disenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twentyfirst-century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.
Angel Catbird, Volume 2: To Castle Catula
Margaret Atwood
The cat-centric adventure continues, in the all-ages follow-up to best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood's debut graphic novel. Genetic engineer Strig Feleedus, also known as Angel Catbird, and his band of half-cats head to Castle Catula to seek allies as the war between cats and rats escalates. Margaret Atwood, the respected, worldwide best-selling novelist, and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas continue their action-packed adventure!
Good Bones
Margaret Atwood
In Good Bones, first published in 1992, Margaret Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parable, monologue, mini-romance and mini-biography, speculative fiction, prose lyric, outrageous recipe and reconfigured fairy tale, demonstrating yet again the play of an unerring wit overseen by a panoramic intelligence. Good Bones is a cornucopia of good things — precise, witty, wise, and sometimes offbeat Atwood writing, with the funny and the sidelong view of the world which her readers recognize at once.
The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), regarded by many as her most fully realized volume of poetry, is one of the great Canadian and feminist epics. In 1980, Margaret Atwood's longtime friend, the distinguished Canadian artist Charles Pachter, illustrated, designed, and published a handmade boxed portfolio edition of 120 copies of the poem with silkscreen prints, created as an act of homage to the poet. Atwood herself has said of Pachter's work, "His is a sophisticated art which draws upon many techniques and evokes many echoes." The poem and the prints inspire one another. This is the first facsimile edition of the original, as well as the first one-volume American edition of the poem, with an introduction by Charles Pachter and a foreword by David Staines.
The Complete Angel Catbird
Margaret Atwood
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale , comes the complete collection of the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel from Margaret Atwood!
Internationally best-selling and respected novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events!
A genetic engineer caught in the middle of a chemical accident all of a sudden finds himself with superhuman abilities. With these new powers he takes on the identity of Angel Catbird and gets caught in the middle of a war between animal/human hybrids. What follows is a humorous, action-driven, educational, and pulp- inspired superhero adventure--with a lot of cat puns.
Includes previously unpublished art by Margaret Atwood.
Collects Angel Catbird volumes 1-3
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The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1860] Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
A gripping vision of American society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has become one of the most powerful novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to shops whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander to make her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.
Like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four, The Handmaid’s Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but also as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant.
Good Bones and Simple Murders
Margaret Atwood
In this collection of short works that defy easy categorization, Margaret Atwood displays the trademark wit and virtuosity of her brilliant novels, stories, and poetry. Gertrude offers Hamlet a piece of her mind; we discover the truth about the Little Red Hen; a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got "Dracula" all wrong; and Atwood reveals the five methods of making a man (such as the "Traditional Method": "Take some dust off the ground. Form. Breathe into the nostrils the breath of life. Simple, but effective!") There are parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fiction, reconfigured fairy tales, and other miniature masterpieces--punctuated with charming illustrations by the author. A must for her fans, and a wonderful gift for all who savor the art of exquisite prose, Good Bones And Simple Murders marks the first time these writings have been available in a trade edition in the US. "[Margaret Atwood] proves she is an accomplished miniaturist...She can pack more wallop into less space than any other writer in her weight class." Toronto Globe And Mail
Circé et autres poèmes de jeunesse - Édition bilingue
Margaret Atwood
À l'occasion de la publication de Poèmes tardifs dans la collection " Pavillons ", ce recueil de poésie inédit en France, écrit après des décennies de silence poétique, Circé et autres poèmes de jeunesse paraît dans la collection " Pavillons Poche ". " Margaret Atwood, poète ? L'idée pourrait presque faire sourire, tant l'image de l'écrivaine s'est construite autour du roman et de ses prolongements au succès planétaire que sont les adaptations télévisées de Captive et de La Servante écarlate .
Mais les faits sont là : c'est par la poésie que Margaret Atwood est entrée en littérature au début des années 1960. Et elle n'a jamais cessé d'écrire de la poésie. De se référer à la poésie. D'habiter le monde en poète.
Circé et autres poèmes de jeunesse rassemble dix années de création poétique. Dix années d'éclosion, qui précèdent et accompagnent l'émergence de l'oeuvre romanesque. Dans le cycle de Circé sur lequel s'achèvent ces poèmes de jeunesse, Margaret Atwwod s'attache à la magicienne qu'Ulysse rencontre lors de son Odyssée, s'intéresse à la manière dont les femmes survivent dans les structures qui les déshumanisent. Et rêve pour elles d'un avenir meilleur. "
Bruno Doucey
" Voici un recueil de la poétesse canadienne Margaret Atwood qui saute au visage de celui qui le lit. Par ses mots, elle se saisit du parcours de Circé. Mais à sa manière : la Circé qui se dévoile ici nous semble inconnue. "
Loup Besmond de Senneville, La Croix
Penélope y las doce criadas
Margaret Atwood
Probablemente una de las gestas heroicas más glosadas y conocidas de todos los tiempos, el regreso de Ulises a Ítaca, nos deja también un gran interrogante acerca de la terrible matanza de los pretendientes de Penélope y sus doce criadas: ¿por qué se ahorcó a las mujeres y cuáles eran las verdaderas intenciones de Penélope?
En un audaz e inspirado giro al relato de Homero, Margaret Atwood cede a Penélope la voz narradora que nos conduce hacia la respuesta del misterioso suceso. Su relato, colmado de sabiduría y humor, resulta inquietante, fruto de la imaginación de una autora ampliamente reconocida por su capacidad de contar historias con un elevado tono poético.
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023
Margaret Atwood
An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our ageTracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—Paper Boat assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume. In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful, and hyper-imagined, Atwood gives voices to remarkably drawn characters—mythological figures, animals, and everyday people—all of whom have something to say about what it means to live in a world as strange as our own. “How can one live with such a heart?” Atwood asks, casting her singular spell upon the reader, and ferrying us through life, death, and whatever comes next. Walking the tightrope between reality and fantasy as only she can, Atwood’s journey through poetry illuminates our most innate joys and sorrows, desires and fears. Spanning six decades of work—from her earliest beginnings to brand new poems—this volume charts the evolution of one of our most iconic and necessary authors.
Lesioni personali
Margaret Atwood
La vita di Rennie Wilford, una giovane giornalista di Toronto che scrive di viaggi e moda, sta prendendo una brutta piega. Per distrarsi e riprendersi, Rennie vola ai Caraibi, sulla piccola isola di St. Antoine, con l'intento di scrivere un pezzo di costume sulla località. Si trova così da un giorno all'altro prigioniera di un mondo in cui le regole di sopravvivenza che conosceva non funzionano più: un luogo in cui regna un'immobilità soffocante, rallentata e corrotta, scenario di una vicenda di potere, di traffico d'armi, di complesse e oscure reti di relazioni. Tradotto per la prima volta in Italia, un romanzo che contiene tutti i temi più cari a Margaret Atwood: il retaggio di un'educazione moralista, il rapporto con il proprio corpo, il ruolo della donna nella coppia e nella società, la libertà individuale e la democrazia. Comico, satirico, implacabile e terrificante, "Lesioni personali" è un'esplorazione della brama di potere, sia sessuale che politica, e del bisogno di compassione che va oltre ciò che normalmente intendiamo per amore.
Die Zeuginnen
Margaret Atwood
»Und so steige ich hinauf, in die Dunkelheit dort drinnen oder ins Licht.« - Als am Ende vom »Report der Magd« die Tür des Lieferwagens und damit auch die Tür von Desfreds »Report« zuschlug, blieb ihr Schicksal für uns Leser ungewiss. Was erwartete sie: Freiheit? Gefängnis? Der Tod? Das Warten hat ein Ende! Mit »Die Zeuginnen« nimmt Margaret Atwood den Faden der Erzählung fünfzehn Jahre später wieder auf, in Form dreier explosiver Zeugenaussagen von drei Erzählerinnen aus dem totalitären Schreckensstaat Gilead. »Liebe Leserinnen und Leser, die Inspiration zu diesem Buch war all das, was Sie mich zum Staat Gilead und seine Beschaffenheit gefragt haben. Naja, fast jedenfalls.Die andere Inspirationsquelle ist die Welt, in der wir leben.«
Moving Targets
Margaret Atwood
The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood's work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing career to the influence of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four on The Handmaid's Tale, we trace the movement of Atwood's fertile and curious mind in action over the years.Atwood's controversial political pieces, Napoleon's Two Biggest Mistakes and Letter to America -- both not-so-veiled warnings about the repercussions of the war in Iraq -- also appear, alongside pieces that exhibit her active concern for the environment, the North, and the future of the human race. Atwood also writes about her John Updike, Marina Warner, Italo Calvino, Marian Engel, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mordecai Richler, Elmore Leonard, and Ursula Le Guin.This is a landmark volume from a major writer whose worldwide readership is in the millions, and whose work has influenced and entertained generations. Moving Targets is the companion volume to Second Words.
Dearly: Poems
Margaret Atwood
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet
By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.
Before she became one of the world’s most important and loved novelists, Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognisable and celebrated themes, but distilled – from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens, from pressing political issues to myth and legend. It is a pure Atwood delight, and long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight, empathy and humour.
Burning Questions
Margaret Atwood
In this funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient collection of essays cultural icon Margaret Atwood- Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?- How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?- How can we live on our planet?- Is it true? And is it fair?- What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young ( only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human universe.'Brilliant and funny' Joan Didion'She's taken our times and made us wise to them' Ali Smith'All over the reading world, the history books are being opened to the next blank page and Atwood's name is written at the top of it' Anne Enright, Guardian
Angel Catbird, Volume 3: The Catbird Roars
Margaret Atwood
It’s all-out war in the madcap conclusion to Angel Catbird’s superhero saga. The evil Rat army is aiming for world domination, and only a ragtag gang of half-cats stands in their way. Internationally best-selling novelist and animal lover Margaret Atwood pens a conclusion to the dramatic, hilarious, and heartwarming trilogy.
Series Overview: This is the final volume of Margaret Atwood’s graphic novel debut series Angel Catbird
The Penelopiad: The Play
Margaret Atwood
As portrayed in Homer's 'Odyssey', Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travelling minstrels regale her with news of Odysseus' epic adventures around the Mediterranean - slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then, in an act that served as little more than a footnote in Homer's original story, ruthlessly hangs Penelope's twelve maids.
Os Testamentos
Margaret Atwood
O conto da aia, a obra-prima distópica de Margaret Atwood, tornou-se um clássico de nossos tempos. E agora a autora oferece a seus leitores a sua aguardada e surpreendente continuação.QUINZE ANOS APÓS os eventos de O conto da aia, o regime teocrático da República de Gilead aparentemente se mantém firme no poder, mesmo após as sucessivas tentativas de insurgência. Mas há sinais de que suas engrenagens começam a se deteriorar.Nesse momento crucial da história política do país, as vidas de três mulheres radicalmente diferentes convergem, e as consequências deste encontro poderão ser explosivas. Duas delas cresceram em lados opostos da fronteira: uma em Gilead, criada em meio a privilégios como filha de um importante Comandante, e outra no Canadá, onde frequenta a escola, trabalha na loja dos pais, participa de protestos anti-Gilead e assiste na TV às notícias sobre seus horrores. Os testamentos dessas duas jovens, que fazem parte da primeira geração a chegar à idade adulta nessa nova ordem mundial, são entrelaçados por uma terceira voz: o revelador manuscrito de uma das executoras do regime, uma mulher que exerce sua autoridade implacável por meio do acúmulo e da manipulação de segredos de Estado que podem ameaçar todas as estruturas do poder. Segredos dispersos e há muito enterrados, capazes de unir essas três mulheres, fazendo com que elas encarem quem realmente são e decidam até onde podem ir em busca do que acreditam.
Il canto di Penelope
Margaret Atwood
Fedele e saggia, Penelope ha atteso per vent'anni il ritorno del marito che, dopo aver vinto la guerra di Troia, ha vagato per il Mar Mediterraneo sconfiggendo mostri e amoreggiando con ninfe, principesse e dee, facendo sfoggio di grande astuzia, coraggio e notevole fascino, e guadagnandosi così una fama imperitura. E intanto che cosa faceva Penelope, chiusa in silenzio nella sua reggia? Sappiamo che piangeva e pregava per il ritorno del marito, che cercava di tenere a bada l'impulsività del figlio adolescente, che si barcamenava per respingere le proposte dei Proci e conservare così il regno. Ma cosa le passava veramente per la testa? Dopo essere morta e finita nell'Ade, Penelope non teme più la vendetta degli dèi e desidera raccontare la verità, anche per mettere a tacere certe voci spiacevoli che ha sentito sul suo conto. La sua versione della storia è ricca di colpi di scena, dipana dubbi antichi e suggerisce nuovi interrogativi, mettendo in luce la sua natura tormentata, in contrasto con la sua abituale immagine di equilibrio e pacatezza. L'autrice di culto Margaret Atwood, con la sua scrittura poetica, ironica e anticonvenzionale, dà voce a un personaggio femminile di grande fascino, protagonista di uno dei racconti più amati della storia occidentale.
Ojo de gato
Margaret Atwood
Tras una larga ausencia, la pintora Elaine Risley vuelve a Toronto, ciudad donde pasó los años de su primera adolescencia, para presentar una exposición retrospectiva de su obra. Deambular por las antiguas y ahora transformadas calles de la ciudad, ya cumplidos los cincuenta años, y buscar caras conocidas entre los rostros de los viandantes reaviva en su memoria las imágenes de la infancia. Elaine observa desde la distancia establecida con el paso del tiempo aquellas experiencias, sobre todo la relación intensa y humillante con su amiga íntima Cordelia, que configuraron su identidad como mujer.
Con frases cortas, descripciones puntuales, escenas de gran sí tendidas visual y cierta ironía, la celebrada autora de El asesino ciego (premio Booker 2000) nos invita a emprender, con la lectura de Ojo de gato, un apasionante viaje por los caminos de la memoria, al tiempo que evoca de forma inaudita, original y perturbadora la crueldad de los tiempos de la niñez.
حكاية الجارية
Margaret Atwood
رؤية مخيفة للمجتمع وقد تحوّل جذريًّا بسبب ثورة سياسيّة دينيّة متشدّدة. لقد باتت "حكاية الجارية" واحدة من أوسع الروايات قراءة في العالم وأكثرها تعلّقًا بالحاضر وقضاياه المؤثّرة.
"أوفرِد" هي جارية في "جمهورية جلعاد" ، تخدم في منزل "الرئيس" الغامض وزوجته حادّة الطّباع. تخرج مرة واحدة يوميًّا إلى الأسواق، حيث استُبدلت الصّور بكلّ اللافتات المكتوبة، فالنساء في جلعاد تحرّم عليهن القراءة. يجب عليها أن تصلي من أجل أن يجعلها الرّئيس حاملًا ، ففي زمنها انخفضت معدّلات الولادة حتى صار وجود الأطفال في البيوت أمرًا نادرًا، وهكذا باتت قيمة المرأة تكمن في قُدرتها على الحمل، أمّا فشلها فيعني إرسالها إلى المستعمرات لتنظيف النفايات الإشعاعيّة. تتذكر أوفرد الأوقات التي عاشتها مع زوجها وابنتها، وفي وظيفتها ، قبل أن تسلبها الثورة حتى اسمها الحقيقي.
رواية تُعتبر في مصافّ رواية جورج أورويل "1984" و آلدوس هكسلي "عالم جديد شجاع"، إذ لم تترك بصمتها وحسب في أدب الدستوبيا، بل وشكّلت تحذيرًا لمُستقبل يُحتمل وقوعه، ونشعر الآن برعشة برودته.
Η ιστορία της Θεραπαινίδας (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Margaret Atwood
Η Δημοκρατία της Γαλαάδ προσφέρει στην Τουφρέντ μόνο μία επιλογή: την αναπαραγωγή. Αν παρεκκλίνει απ' τον σκοπό της, θα καταλήξει, όπως όλοι οι αντιφρονούντες, κρεμασμένη στο Τείχος, ή θα σταλεί στις Αποικίες, όπου θα βρει αργό και μαρτυρικό θάνατο από ραδιενέργεια. Αλλά ακόμα κι ένα απολυταρχικό καθεστώς δεν μπορεί να αφανίσει τον πόθο - ούτε της Τουφρέντ ούτε και των δύο ανδρών απ' τους οποίους κρέμεται η μοίρα της.
Μια μεγαλοφυής, συγκλονιστική δυστοπία για το κακό που παραμονεύει στην ανθρώπινη φύση, Η ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΡΑΠΑΙΝΙΔΑΣ διαβάζεται και σαν σκοτεινό χρονικό μιας εναλλακτικής πραγματικότητας ή σαν σπαραχτική μαρτυρία για τη θέση της γυναίκας στον σύγχρονο κόσμο.
Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975
Margaret Atwood
Gathered from Margaret Atwood’s work over the decade of 1965–1975, Selected Poems 1 is a lasting collection from one of our most celebrated contemporary writers. Margaret Atwood’s early poetry garnered widespread critical recognition and helped establish her reputation as one of the most provocative modern literary talents. Selected Poems 1 draws from six volumes published early in Atwood’s The Circle Game (1966), which received the Governor General’s Award; The Animals in That Country (1968); Procedures for Underground (1970); The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970); Power Politics (1971); and You Are Happy (1974). In these early poems, Atwood considers the space between the cruelties of civilization and the wonders of nature, the dissonance of Canadian identity, and the line where beauty becomes sinister. With poems that are “glistening with terse, bright images, untentative, closing like a vise” ( New York Times ), this is an essential collection to be treasured for years to come.
El cuento de la criada
Margaret Atwood
"El cuento de la criada", una de las novelas más célebres y prestigiosas de Margaret Atwood, constituye una mirada futurista a una sociedad totalitaria. Una mirada terrible ylúcida que denuncia la barbarie que pueden llegar a alcanzar los puritanismos extremos de toda índole y las ansias de dominio sobre los seres humanos privados del ejercicio del derecho a la libertad.
En el estado de Gilead, donde tras una hecatombe nuclear la población ha visto disminuida su capacidad de reproducción, las Criadas, vestidas con hábitos rojos de la cabeza a los pies, con el rostro cubierto por un velo transparente y enmarcado por una toca blanca, desempeñan una funcion esencial: concebir y dar a luz a futuros ciudadanos. Destinadas a esta empresa suprema, viven enclaustradas y reducidas a ser un cuerpo con una única misión: reproducirse.
"Debemos recordar que no hay nada nuevo en la sociedad descrita en "El cuento de la criada" excepto el tiempo y el lugar. Todo aquello acerca de lo que ha escrito se ha hecho anteriormente, y más de una vez", ha escrito la propia Margaret Atwood, incluida con una de sus obras en el famoso canon de Harold Bloom y galardonada en 2008 con el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras.
O pisaniu
Margaret Atwood
Jako dwudziestoletnia poetka, usłyszałam od starszego poety, mężczyzny, że jako poetka nigdy niczego nie osiągnę, jeśli nie będę wcześniej kierowcą ciężarówki, a tym samym nie przekonam się na własnej skórze, jak wygląda życie prawdziwych ludzi. Nie uważam, by między życiem a sztuką zachodziły jakiekolwiek korelacje przyczynowo-skutkowe sprawdzające się w każdych warunkach, a już na pewno nie takie, które objaśniają jakość dzieła; by działały mechaniczne recepty typu „połóż surowiec na fotel kierowcy ciężarówki, a po pewnym czasie otwórz drzwi od strony pasażera i wyjmij znakomitego artystę wysokiej klasy”.
Błyskotliwe, dowcipne i bardzo osobiste teksty, które pierwotnie miały formę wykładów, jakie autorka wygłosiła na uniwersytecie w Cambridge w 2000 roku. Znajdziemy tu m.in. „Dłoń jekyllową i dłoń hyde’ową”, czyli tekst o dwoistości pisarza, refleksje o pisaniu i finansach, o mitologiach dotyczących pisarza i pisarki, o pisarskich powinnościach, o tym, dla kogo pisarz pisze i jak pisanie ma się do uprawiania innych dziedzin sztuki, a także, jaki to wszystko ma związek ze śmiercią. Anegdoty, cytaty, literackie odniesienia – mnóstwo dobra dla każdego, kto kocha Atwood i czytanie.
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