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.
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.
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.
Angel Catbird
Margaret Atwood
Primera incursión en la novela gráfica de Margaret Atwood, Angel Catbird confirma el talento de la autora para imaginar escenarios distópicos, cercanos al género de la ciencia-ficción.
Un joven ingeniero de genética llamado Strig Felidus se ve envuelto en un accidente, a raíz del cual su ADN se mezcla con el de un gato y un búho. Provisto repentinamente de habilidades sobrehumanas, asumirá la identidad de Angel Catbird y se verá inmerso en una guerra a muerte entre los hombres-gato y los ejércitos de ratas del profesor Muroid.
En colaboración con el artista Johnnie Christmas, cuyos dibujos en la tradición del comic book norteamericano ofrecen el contraste perfecto para el carácter delirante de la historia, Margaret Atwood ha creado una divertidísima novela gráfica en la que reflexiona sobre la libertad, la naturaleza y la colaboración entre diferentes especies. Una aventura de superhéroes de inspiración pulp, llena de amor por los animales.
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
Angel Catbird, Volume 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
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!
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
A Odisséia de Penélope: O Mito de Penélope e Odisseu
Margaret Atwood
Um pequeno episódio narrado por Homero serve como base para A Odisséia de Penélope, segundo volume da Coleção Mitos. Trata-se da passagem em que Odisseu e seu filho Telêmaco enforcam as doze escravas que se deitavam com os pretendentes ao trono de Ítaca. Esses pretendentes, nobres e príncipes, tinham se aproveitado da longa ausência de Odisseu para se instalar no palácio real e promover banquetes e festas diárias em que as escravas prestavam diversos serviços. Pela suposta traição ao reino, as escravas são enforcadas.
O que levou ao enforcamento? Qual era realmente a postura de Penélope? "A versão da Odisséia não se sustenta [...]; o enforcamento das escravas sempre me incomodou, e em A Odisséia de Penélope esse incômodo atormenta Penélope", explica Margaret Atwood, que deu às escravas o papel do Coro, chamando a atenção para os questionamentos que surgem de uma leitura atenta da Odisséia.
Em A Odisséia de Penélope, Margaret Atwood subverte a narrativa original, centrada em Odisseu e suas peripécias, ao longo dos vinte anos em que esteve ausente de Ítaca. A esposa Penélope, personagem emblemática da fidelidade e da obediência feminina, passa a ocupar o centro da história, e a reconta de seu ponto de vista.
Dona de uma astúcia comparável à de Odisseu, ela se vale de inúmeros expedientes para sobreviver com dignidade enquanto o marido não retorna. Mas seus pensamentos, desejos e paixões nem sempre são os mais apropriados a uma casta rainha. Para recontar o episódio, Margaret Atwood usou várias fontes - já que a Odisséia de Homero não é a única versão da história -, e criou uma obra ao mesmo tempo muito bem-humorada e reflexiva.
Asasinul orb
Margaret Atwood
Romanul Asasinul orb a primit Man Booker Prize în 2000, în 2001 a fost nominalizat la Orange Prize for Fiction, iar în 2002 la International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Revista Time l-a declarat cel mai bun roman al anului 2000 și l-a inclus în lista celor mai bune 100 de romane scrise în limba engleză din 1923 până în prezent.
După cincizeci de ani, Iris Chase își amintește împrejurările misterioasei dispariții a Laurei. Viețile celor două surori își împletesc firele, iar episoadele erotice se întretaie cu destinul unui asasin orb, pus să ucidă o fecioară de care până la urmă se îndrăgostește, dar și cu apăsate aluzii mitologice, de care Eneida lui Vergiliu nu este străină. Întreaga istorie a romanului nu părăsește însă fundalul secolului XX, pe care Margaret Atwood îl acoperă de umbrele trecutului, de fiorul fanteziei ce pîndește viața, cu iubirile și trădările ei.
Asesinato en la Oscuridad
Margaret Atwood
En esta colección de relatos que desafían la fácil categorización, Margaret Atwood muestra, en forma condensada y cristalizada, el ingenio de sus novelas más vendidas, pequeñas historias brillantes y poesía perspicaz. Entre las joyas reunidas aquí, seleccionadas de dos libros anteriores (Asesinato en la Oscuridad y Buenos Huesos) están Gertrude ofreciéndole a Hamlet una parte de su mente, la verdad sobre la gallina Marcelina, un murciélago reencarnado que explica cómo Bram Stoker se equivocó con "Drácula" y los cinco métodos para hacer un hombre.
Hay parábolas, monólogos, poemas en prosa, ciencia ficción condensada y cuentos de hadas reconfigurados, entre otras obras maestras en miniatura.
A tenda
Margaret Atwood
'A Tenda' é uma coletânea de pequenos contos escritos com a marca poética e crítica de Margaret Atwood. Em breves reflexões sobre a mortalidade e o inevitável passar do tempo, a autora explora figuras míticas e sua vasta bagagem literária para falar de si mesma e de personagens inusitados que algum dia povoaram sua imaginação.
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.
Bluebeards Egg and Other Stories
Margaret Atwood
In this acclaimed collection of twelve stories, Margaret Atwood probes the territory of childhood memories and the casual cruelty men and women inflict upon each other and themselves. She looks behind the familiar world of family summers at remote lakes, ordinary lives, and unexpected loves, and she unearths profound truths. A melancholy, teenage love is swept away by a Canadian hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds; a potter tries to come to terms with the group of poets who so smother her that she is driven into the arms of her accountant; and, in the title story, the Bluebeard legend is retold as an ironic tale of marital deception. Stark and scathing at times, humorous and compassionate at others, "Bluebeard"'"s Egg" confirms once again Atwood's reputation as the pre-eminent chronicler of our times.
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.
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Margaret Atwood
How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures.
‘Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed through their minds, or mind, they are not the same.’
Raised by ruggedly independent, scientifically minded parents – entomologist father, dietician mother – Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec. This childhood was unfettered and nomadic, sometimes isolated (on her eighth birthday: 'It sounds forlorn. It was forlorn. It gets more forlorn.’), but also thrilling and beautiful.
From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking seminal moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel year that spawned Cat’s Eye to the Orwellian 1980s Berlin where she wrote The Handmaid’s Tale. In pages bursting with bohemian gatherings, her magical life with the wildly charismatic writer Graeme Gibson and major political turning points, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood actors and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.
As we travel with her along the course of her life, more and more is revealed about her writing, the connections between real life and art – and the workings of one of our greatest imaginations.
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
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.
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.
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
Criminosa ou inocente?
Margaret Atwood
Grace tinha apenas 16 anos de idade quando foi presa, acusada dos homicídios a sangue-frio do seu patrão, Mr. Thomas Kinnear e da governanta/amante deste, Nancy Montgomery. O seu alegado cúmplice nesses crimes, James McDermott, foi condenado à pena máxima e enforcado em 21 de Novembro de 1843.
Quanto a Grace teve a pena comutada para prisão perpétua e, após um internamento no manicómio, chegou-se à conclusão de que não era louca nem perigosa, apesar de garantir que não se recordava dos dois homicídios. E assim decorreram dezasseis anos.
É então que intervém o Dr. Simon Jordan, um dos mais avançados jovens médicos do seu tempo no campo da saúde mental, que escuta o relato de Grace, no intuito de acordar a parte adormecida da sua mente. Mas que irá ele descobrir? Seria Grace uma mulher sem escrúpulos, a verdadeira assassina de Nancy Montgomery? Ou teria sido apenas uma vítima fraca e involuntária do violento James Dermott?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Death by Landscape
Margaret Atwood
“Death by Landscape” (1989) is a complex and multi-layered story that explores themes such as the unknown, memory and guilt, and coming of age. It also embodies many of Atwood’s theories of Canadian literature, including the prevalence of nature and the notion of survival.
Also available in the anthology Wilderness Tips
Democracy: Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
Margaret Atwood
This is an exceptional moment for democracy.In the year of elections, read Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Lea Ypi, Elif Shafak and more on what democracy means - and why it matters. In 2024, nearly half the world will take part in a national election, with billions heading to the polls. It's a thrilling, unprecedented opportunity for change - yet democracy is also under threat.Women are at the forefront of the fight for democratic rights, as well as being the most vulnerable when those rights disappear. Here, eleven extraordinary women - leaders, philosophers, historians, writers and activists - explore democracy's power to uplift our societies. Between its ancient origins and its modern challenges, they chare a vision for a better future - one we can build together.
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.
Dicas da Imensidão
Margaret Atwood
A história de mulheres confrontando seus monstros. De jovens em colônias de férias com nomes indígenas a poetas de saraus em cafeterias antiburguesas e profissionais bem-sucedidas dos escritórios de Toronto, Margaret Atwood apresenta em Dicas da imensidão dez contos que, ao recuperarem acontecimentos transformadores do passado – recente e distante – de cada uma de suas protagonistas, e seus ecos no presente, convidam a uma reflexão sobre escolhas, chances perdidas e sobrevivência.
Aos 77 anos, ela é ativa nas redes sociais, onde frequentemente expõe suas opiniões sobre temas como feminismo, meio ambiente, política e economia, assuntos presentes também em toda a sua extensa obra literária. Nesta coletânea de contos protagonizados por personagens femininas marcantes que inaugura o novo projeto gráfico para a obra da escritora pela Rocco, assinado pelo ilustrador Laurindo Feliciano, a canadense Margaret Atwood mostra mais uma vez por que é uma das principais vozes da literatura em língua inglesa contemporânea. São dez narrativas em que a fauna humana se apresenta em toda a sua banalidade e excepcionalidade, em que situações inquietantes subitamente desestabilizam o cotidiano de pessoas comuns, iluminando o instante único capaz de moldar uma vida inteira. Manejando com extrema habilidade os sentimentos, desejos, as frustrações e memórias de suas personagens, a escritora conduz o leitor por uma teia de histórias que falam da beleza e do mistério da condição humana.
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.«
Disordine morale
Margaret Atwood
Undici racconti: un album di fotografie, sessant'anni di una famiglia canadese, quasi un romanzo. Per ogni racconto, un momento preciso nella vita della protagonista, una serie di istantanee limpide che disegnano il corso di una vita e delle vite che con essa si intrecciano: quelle di genitori, parenti, figli, amici e nemici, bambini, animali, professori. Il tempo passa, dagli anni Trenta arriviamo fino ai giorni nostri, e anche gli scenari cambiano: grandi città, periferie, fattorie, foreste. Un mosaico memorabile di sofferenza tra le mura domestiche, costruito sul ricordo e sulla sua capacità di nascondersi o di emergere, di persistere in un apparente disordine che, se abbiamo la pazienza di esaminare, rivelerà quella struttura complessa che rende unico e irripetibile ogni percorso di vita.
Double Persephone
Margaret Atwood
Double Persephone is a self-published poetry collection written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood in 1961. Atwood handset the book herself with a flat bed press, designed the cover with linoblocks, and only made 220 copies. It was the first publication ever released by Atwood, and comprises seven poems: "Formal Garden", "Pastoral", "Iconic Landscape", "Persephone Departing", "Chthonic Love", "Her Song", "and "Double Persephone". [wikipedia]
Eating Fire : Selected Poetry, 1965-95
Margaret Atwood
The evolution of Margaret Atwood's poetry illuminates one of our major literary talents. Here, as in her novels, is intensity combined with sardonic detachment, and in these early poems her genius for a level stare at the ordinary is wonderfully apparent. Just as startling is her ability to contrast the everyday with the 'Each time I hit a key/ on my electric typewriter/ speaking of peaceful trees/ another village explodes.' Her poetic voice is crystal clear, insistent, unmistakably her own. Through bus trips and postcards, wilderness and trivia, she reflects the passion and energy of a writer intensely engaged with her craft and the world. Two former collections, Poems 1965 - 1975 and Poems 1976 - 1986, are presented together with her latest collection, Morning in the Burned House, in this omnibus that represents the development of a major poet.
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.
El asesino ciego
Margaret Atwood
Avilion, una mansión familiar convertida en símbolo de una época perdida. Un matrimonio movido por la codicia. Un amor clandestino y una pasión irrenunciable. El estallido de la guerra. Iris Chase, ya anciana, invoca el pasado con la distancia y el escepticismo de quien no tiene nada que perder. Su mirada lúcida e irónica se pasea por los salones poblados de sedas, gasas y plumas de avestruz. Contempla las huelgas, los cierres de fábricas y el idealismo de los jóvenes comunistas; los viajes en lujosos transatlánticos y los encuentros en sórdidas pensiones. Y al recordar, arranca máscaras, descubre la relación que la unía con su hermana Laura y los hechos que marcaron el destino de ésta, observa las consecuencias de sus actos de juventud y busca, sobre todo busca, justicia, desvelar la verdad y con ella encontrar el amor y el perdón.
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.
Fantasie di stupro
Margaret Atwood
Fantasie di stupro è una geografia di corpi, esistenze e sentimenti del femminile: le protagoniste di questi racconti sono tutte donne, problematiche, irrisolte e tutto fuorché perfette. Nel racconto che dà il titolo alla raccolta quattro amiche a pranzo conversano sull’ossessione dei settimanali rosa per gli stupri. Una cenerentola grassottella è tampinata da uno stalker e ci resta male quando scopre che lui non perseguita solo lei. Una guerra senza requie che ha come casus belli un bagno in condivisione viene scandita da un conto alla rovescia implacabile fino all’esplosione del conflitto. Racconti indimenticabili di una maestra assoluta della letteratura.
Femeia-oracol
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.
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!
Freedom
Margaret Atwood
Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms to speak and to act to preserve our freedom while we still can. And in that, there is hope.
Selected from The Handmaid’s Tale and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood.
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
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.
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.
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.
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
Grace i Grace
Margaret Atwood
Rok 1843 – Grace Marks zostaje skazana za współudział w brutalnym morderstwie swojego pracodawcy i jego gospodyni. Odsiadując wyrok dożywocia, twierdzi, iż całkowicie utraciła pamięć. Niektórzy uważają, że Grace jest niewinna angażują do pomocy dobrze się zapowiadającego specjalistę od chorób umysłowych. Mężczyzna wysłuchuje historii Grace, zbliżając ją coraz bardziej do dnia, którego ona nie pamięta. Jakie wspomnienia uda mu się odblokować? Czy Grace naprawdę zabiła?
Margaret Atwood stworzyła – na podstawie prawdziwej historii jednej z najbardziej zagadkowych i najsłynniejszych kobiet XIX wieku – niezwykle urzekającą, wstrząsającą i niepokojącą opowieść o seksualności, okrucieństwie i tajemnicy.
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?
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.
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.
Hexensaat
Margaret Atwood
Alles ist Illusion – Margaret Atwoods Verneigung vor dem großen Bühnenmagier William ShakespeareFelix ist ein begnadeter Theatermacher und in der Szene ein Star. Seine Inszenierungen sind herausfordernd, aufregend, legendär. Nun will er Shakespeares „Der Sturm“ auf die Bühne bringen. Das soll ihn noch berühmter machen – und ihm helfen, eine private Tragödie zu vergessen. Doch nach einer eiskalten Intrige seiner engsten Mitarbeiter zieht sich Felix zurück, verliert sich in Erinnerungen und sinnt auf Rache. Die Gelegenheit kommt zwölf Jahre später, als ein Zufall die Verräter in seine Nähe bringt. In ihrem brillanten Roman schafft die große kanadische Autorin Margaret Atwood mit der Figur des Theaterdirektors Felix ein würdiges Pendant zu Shakespeares Prospero aus „Der Sturm“, jenes Zauberers, der als ein Selbstporträt des alternden Barden aus Stratford-on-Avon gilt.
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.
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.
I'm Starved for You (Positron, #1)
Margaret Atwood
In this first installment of the saucy and sinister new Byliner Serial, “Positron,” Margaret Atwood takes readers on a thrill ride to the near future, where paranoia reigns but sex has definitely not gone out of style. “I’m Starved for You” introduces us to the world-weary inhabitants of Consilience. This gated community isn’t your average American town, but in a dystopian society imagined by the visionary, internationally bestselling Atwood (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Year of the Flood”), it may be as close as anyone can hope to get. Husband and wife Stan and Charmaine are among thousands who have committed to a new social order because the old one is all but broken. Outside the walls of Consilience, more than half the country is out of work, gangs of the drug-addicted and disaffected menace the streets, warlords disrupt the food supply, and overcrowded correctional facilities churn out offenders to make room for more. The Consilience prison, Positron, is something else altogether. The very heart of the community and its economic engine, it’s a bold experiment in voluntary incarceration. In exchange for a house, food, and what the online brochure hails as “A Meaningful Life,” residents agree to spend every other month as inmates. Stan and Charmaine have no complaints—until the day Stan discovers a note under the fridge of the house he and Charmaine must share with another couple while they’re back inside Positron. It’s a missive of erotic longing, pressed with a vivid lipstick “I’m starved for you!” it breathes. If Stan rarely thought about the house’s other residents before—they’ve never met them and don’t know their names; it’s not allowed—now he can’t stop thinking about them, especially the note’s sex-addled author, so unlike his girlish wife, Charmaine. He has to meet her, but in this highly ordered and increasingly surveilled world, disorderly thoughts are a risk, and breaking the rules has dire consequences. Equal parts “Tom Jones” and “Brave New World,” this hilarious yet harrowing story will leave you eager to return to Positron—but as a voyeur, not an inmate. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Margaret Atwood is the author of the internationally bestselling novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” as well as forty other books of fiction and nonfiction, including “The Blind Assassin,” “Oryx and Crake,” and “The Year of the Flood.” Her most recent collection of stories is “Moral Disorder.” She has written about utopias and dystopias in “In Other SF and the Human Imagination.” Atwood was awarded the Booker Prize in 2000 for “The Blind Assassin.” PRAISE FOR "I'M STARVED FOR YOU" "What makes this story so impressive is Atwood’s management of detail. She sets up a completely plausible universe, as seamless as a stocking, and shockingly believable. In fact, she is so good at imagining such a society that it’s obvious she’d make a great Minister of Protocol.” —Aritha Van Herk, “The Globe and Mail”
Înainte de Eden
Margaret Atwood
La mijloc de drum intre comedie de moravuri si drama psihologica, romanul Inainte de Eden reda eternul razboi dintre sexe, caruia i se dedau mai multe personaje prinse intr-un vartej de sentimente. Elizabeth, conservatoare intr-un muzeu de istorie naturala, femeie puternica, stapanindu-si senzualitatea, dar si mania, colectioneaza amanti...
Nate, sotul ei, un visator care isi adora copiii, a parasit avocatura pentru a-si urma pasiunea, aceea de a crea jucarii de lemn... Lesje, tanara paleontologa, se lasa sedusa de farmecul sters al lui Nate. Obisnuita sa studieze mai degraba dinozaurii decat complexitatea relatiilor umane, Lesje se apleaca asupra vietii existente inaintea oamenilor pe Pamant.
Cand Chris, amantul lui Elizabeth, se sinucide, iar Lesje ramane insarcinata, fiecare personaj cade prada propriilor sai demoni. Cu umor crud si melancolie tandra, Atwood diseca sufletul barbatilor si al femeilor, ale caror aspiratii de a ajunge la o intelegere nu au sorti de izbanda: o patrunzatoare anatomie a mariajului modern.
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Margaret Atwood
Note: The electronic version of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating eBook-exclusive illustrations by the author.
At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must. From the Hardcover edition.
In Search of "Alias Grace"
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace is based on the murder of Thomas Kinnear and his mistress Nancy Montgomery in 1843. Kinnear's manservant was hanged for the crime, but the execution of his supposed accomplice, Grace Marks, owing to her "feeble sex" and "extreme youth," was commuted to life. In Search of "Alias Grace" describes Margaret Atwood's search for the facts, what she found out, what eluded her grasp, and how this process shaped her novel.
Interlunar
Margaret Atwood
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".
La donna che rubava i mariti
Margaret Atwood
Tre amiche: Roz, Charis e Tony. Si sono conosciute al college e hanno una cosa in comune, Zenia. Anche lei compagna di college, bella, intelligente, di volta in volta manipolatrice e vulnerabile, fragile e spietata, ha tradito la loro fiducia, rubando a ciascuna di loro il marito. A un certo punto è morta, anche se lontano e in circostanze poco chiare; le tre amiche sono andate al suo funerale. Come è possibile, allora, che mentre Roz, Charis e Tony si incontrano in un ristorante alla moda appaia proprio Zenia? La storia si riavvolge, il passato ritorna, anche perché in realtà il fantasma di quella donna non aveva mai smesso di aleggiare sinistramente sulle vite delle tre amiche. Ma forse quella che sembra una minaccia può trasformarsi in un'opportunità? Esplorando il tema scomodo della malvagità femminile, questa storia dimostra, se ce ne fosse bisogno, le doti di narratrice dell'autrice del "Racconto dell'Ancella", la sua capacità di guidarci nelle profondità della coscienza con naturalezza, sfidando le nostre certezze, e di saperlo fare, perché no, con un tocco di sottile umorismo.
La donna da mangiare
Margaret Atwood
Marian è una ragazza ben educata e istruita, vive negli anni Sessanta a Toronto, ed è fidanzata con Peter, un promettente avvocato. Lavora in un'azienda che si occupa di ricerche di mercato, dove i posti di responsabilità sono tutti ricoperti da uomini. Ambiziosa, ma anche desiderosa di essere normale, Marian decide di assecondare le richieste del suo fidanzato e della società e attende fiduciosa il matrimonio, che pensa le conferirà un ruolo. La svolta inattesa giunge quando incontra Duncan, un dottorando in Letteratura inglese che ignora le regole ed è profondamente determinato, a differenza di Marian, a esprimere la propria individualità. La ribellione parte dal corpo della ragazza, che inizia a rifiutare il cibo: prima la carne, poi le uova, infine le verdure, finché la sua personalità, tenuta così a lungo a freno, esplode in una serie di comportamenti inappropriati e sovversivi, modificando per sempre la sua rassicurante, stabile routine. "La donna da mangiare" è il primo romanzo di Margaret Atwood e contiene già tutti i temi delle sue opere successive, presentandola come un'osservatrice consumata delle ironie e delle assurdità generate dal conformismo. Questo primo libro dell'autrice diventerà anche una serie tv, la cui uscita è prevista per il 2021.
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.
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".
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.
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
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.
La Servante écarlate - Nouvelle traduction
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale explores a broad range of issues relating to power, gender, and religious politics. Multiple Golden Globe award-winner Claire Danes (Romeo and Juliet, The Hours) gives a stirring performance of this classic in speculative fiction, one of the most powerful and widely read novels of our time.
After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred, now a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Despite the danger, Offred learns to navigate the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules in hopes of ending this oppression.
L'assassino cieco
Margaret Atwood
«Dieci giorni dopo la fine della guerra mia sorella Laura volò giù dal ponte con l'automobile.» Chi parla e tiene le fila di questo grandioso romanzo è la sorella maggiore di Laura, Iris Chase. Erede di una ricca dinastia canadese, Iris, giunta all'età di ottantadue anni decide di raccontare le vicende tormentate e misteriose della sua famiglia. Così, mentre lenti scorrono i ricordi, il presente si dissolve inevitabilmente nel passato, nella memoria degli avvenimenti che fecero da sfondo alla sua giovinezza: la grande depressione del '29, i due conflitti mondiali, i primi movimenti sindacali e la pubblicazione postuma dell'Assassino cieco, lo scabroso romanzo scritto da Laura prima di morire, divenuto un caso letterario.
Costellato di articoli di giornale, di lettere e di brani dello scandaloso romanzo, il libro di Margaret Atwood si frammenta in tanti rivoli romanzeschi da drammatica cronaca famigliare a perfetto congegno noir, da appassionante storia d'amore ad accorata e coraggiosa denuncia sociale.
Le Club des vieilles contre-attaque (French Edition)
Margaret Atwood
Trois retraitées, des gin tonics, un but commun : la vengeance.Myrna, Leonie et Chrissy se réunissent tous les jeudis pour siroter des cocktails, déguster des fromages raffinés et, depuis peu, réfléchir à un meurtre.Il y a plusieurs dizaines d'années, une vicieuse conjuration de poètes masculins s'est ingéniée – avec succès – à saper la carrière d'écrivaine, la confiance et la santé de leur chère amie Fern. Aujourd'hui, alors que l'état de Fern empire, les trois acolytes décident qu'il est enfin temps de riposter. En secret, bien sûr, car Fern est bien trop gentille pour approuver une vendetta. Tout ce dont elles ont besoin, c'est d'un plan. La revanche est douce et satisfaisante, encore faut-il savoir la mettre en œuvre.Dans ce cosy crime inédit et facétieux, Margaret Atwood nous rappelle que l'amitié n'a pas d'âge.
Le Dernier Homme
Margaret Atwood
Un monde, le nôtre, dans un futur pas si lointain... Un monde dévasté à la suite d'une catastrophe écologique sans précédent, où se combinent des conditions climatiques aberrantes, des manipulations génétiques délirantes et un virus foudroyant prompt à détruire l'ensemble de l'humanité. Esseulé au cœur de cet enfer aseptisé et visionnaire, digne de 1984 et d'Orange mécanique, un homme, Snowman, est confronté à d'étranges créatures génétiquement modifiées, les Crakers, une nouvelle race d'« humains » programmés pour n'être sujets ni à la violence, ni au désir sexuel, ni au fanatisme religieux. Tel un Robinson futuriste, il doit lutter pour sa survie et celle de son espèce. Au risque d'y perdre son âme...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lusus Naturae
Margaret Atwood
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.
Mattino nella casa bruciata
Margaret Atwood
Morning in the Burned House è una raccolta di poesie di Margaret Atwood uscita nel 1995 e definita da molti l'opera poetica più completa, versatile e matura dell'autrice canadese. Le poesie, che variano nei toni e nelle forme dal monologo drammatico, all'elegia lirica, alla riflessione filosofico-esistenziale, affrontano vari aspetti e momenti dell'esperienza di vita di una donna e di un'artista che è sempre stata un importante punto di riferimento per generazioni di altre donne e artiste, un vero portavoce e caposcuola per la letteratura canadese e post-coloniale in genere. La voce della Atwood è sempre al servizio di un'ampia e incisiva esplorazione dell'umanità e attinge alla scienza, alla storia, al mito, attraverso la metafora unificante della combustione (rogo - pira sacrificale - incendio) che vuole essere allo stesso tempo immagine di distruzione e di rinnovamento. Non manca neppure l'ottica femminile e femminista che porta a smascherare con ironia le contraddizioni e le prevaricazioni maschili, ma la vena satirica è bilanciata e resa più autorevole da una saggezza che deriva dalla profonda conoscenza delle vicende umane, dal senso della perdita e dell'abbandono, dalla sottesa e ineludibile consapevolezza della mortalità. Liriche che abitano un paesaggio contemporaneo imbevuto di immagini e archetipi del passato: una poesia sempre in cerca di un paradigma della contemporaneità in bilico tra memoria e realtà, tra capacità di emendare e forza del perdono.
Moral Disorder
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood’s latest brilliant collection of short stories follows the life of a single character, seen as a girl growing up the 1930s, a young woman in the 50s and 60s, and, in the present day, half of a couple, no longer young, reflecting on the new state of the world. Each story focuses on the ways relationships transform a character’s life: a woman’s complex love for a married man, the grief upon the death of parents and the joy with the birth of children, the realization of what growing old with someone you love really means. By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwood’s celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage. (less)
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."
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.
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.
Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
Margaret Atwood
These short fictions and prose poems are beautifully bizarre: bread can no longer be thought of as wholesome comforting loaves; the pretensions of the male chef are subjected to a loght roasting; a poisonous brew is concocted by cynical five year olds; and knowing when to stop is of deadly importance in a game of Murder in the Dark.
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.
Myös sinun nimesi
Margaret Atwood
Nada se acaba (Spanish Edition)
Margaret Atwood
¿Existe alguna manera de trascendernos, de vencer nuestra condición de seres mortales, quizá a través de la pasión? Esa es la pregunta que guía e intriga al lector en Nada se acaba.
El matrimonio de Elisabeth y Nate hace aguas. Llevan casados más de una década y viven bajo el mismo techo, pero durante los últimos años han llevado vidas separadas. En su naufragio conyugal se embarcan en constantes aventuras sentimentales de las que suelen volver maltrechos, hasta que de repente algo cambia: el suicidio del último amante de Elisabeth y la relación entre Nate y Lesje, una paleontóloga que solo se siente cómoda entre fósiles de dinosaurios, van a crear un nuevo triángulo amoroso que rompe el peculiar equilibrio de la pareja.
A lo largo de estas páginas llenas de sabiduría desfilan adultos que al final del día no son más que niños en busca de protección. Su desconcierto y su rabia son en el fondo universales, pues duele comprender que no somos más que una mota de polvo en la historia del universo: por mucho que hagamos, nada se acaba y la vida sigue sin pedir permiso. Finalmente, entre tantas dudas, un destello de luz se abre paso: tal vez la entrega amorosa pueda llevarnos hacia el futuro y ser un antídoto contra la muerte y el olvido. Tal vez...
Negociando Com Os Mortos
Margaret Atwood
Em 'Negociando com os mortos', a autora fala sobre escrever. Não se trata de um guia para aspirantes a escritor nem de um relato sobre seu processo criativo - a autora recorre aos seus 40 anos de experiência para refletir sobre o que é ser escritor. Cada capítulo traz o conteúdo de uma das seis palestras apresentadas por Margaret Atwood nas Empson Lectures, tradicional ciclo de conferências da Universidade de Cambridge. A autora aproveitou o livro para detalhar algumas passagens e reduzir outras. No primeiro capítulo, a autora conta sua própria história para explicar o que é ser escritor. Sua primeira experiência como tal foi aos 7 anos, quando fez uma peça de teatro. No segundo capítulo, são apresentados os dois lados de todo escritor - o nome que figura nas capas dos livros e a pessoa de carne e osso, inevitavelmente diferentes. Esta discussão leva ao terceiro capítulo, sobre o conflito entre arte e mercado. O escritor surge como instrumento de poder social e político no capítulo quarto. A relação escritor-texto-leitor é abordada no quinto capítulo. No sexto capítulo, Margaret Atwood defende a tese de que toda narrativa é motivada pelo fascínio da mortalidade e pelo medo desse fascínio.
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?
Neskamearen ipuina
Margaret Atwood
Freden neskamea da Gileadeko Errepublikan. Komandantearen eta haren emaztearen etxetik egunean behin ateratzen da elikagaiak erostera, errotuluetan hitzak ez baizik eta irudiak dituzten saltokietara, emakumeek debekaturik baitute irakurtzea. Buruz gora etzaten da hilean behin eta otoitz egingo du Komandanteak haurdun utz dezan, jaiotze tasak beherantz egin zuenetik Freden eta gainerako neskameak beren obarioen emankortasunaren arabera balioesten baitira. Hori guztia isilik eta burumakur beteko du, baldin eta Kolonietan edo Horman amaitu nahi ez badu. Jokamoldea, janzkera eta sexu jarduna ez bezala, desira nekez da gobernatzen, ordea, eta Fredenek lehengo bizitza gogoratuko du: bere senar Lukerekin amodioa egiten zuenekoa; alabarekin jostatzen zenekoa; ofizio bat, beraren dirua eta ezagutzarako sarbidea zituenekoa. Orain, akabo guztia.
Jainkoak eta Gobernuak bat egiten dute distopia aztoragarri honetan, eta erregimen ahalguztidun baten itxura hartzen. Politikaren eta sexuaren arteko lotura ilunenetako batzuei argi emanez, mehatxu ezkutu bat agerrarazten du: gizarte osoa azpiratzeko lehen urratsa emakumeak mendean hartzea da. Antizipazio izugarriz, 80ko hamarkadan kaleratu zuen Margaret Atwoodek eleberria, bere prosak ohi duen sarkasmo sotil eta ideien argitasuna lagun. Urteek indartu baizik ez dute egiten istorio lazgarri hau.
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.
O Ano do Dilúvio (MaddAddam #2)
Margaret Atwood
O Sol já brilha no céu, dando ao cinzento do mar o seu tom avermelhado. Os abutres secam as asas ao vento. Cheira a queimado. O dilúvio seco, uma praga criada em laboratório pelo homem, exterminou a humanidade. Mas duas mulheres sobreviveram: Ren, uma dançarina de varão, e Toby, que do alto do seu jardim no terraço observa e escuta. Está aí mais alguém?
Occhio di gatto
Margaret Atwood
La protagonista è una pittrice, Elaine Risley, che in occasione della prima retrospettiva delle sue opere ritorna nella città dov’è cresciuta, Toronto. Se n’era andata molti anni prima, per lasciarsi alle spalle i fantasmi della gioventù. Ora, mentre valuta con occhio critico i cambiamenti nella città, Elaine ritrova se stessa bambina. Momenti e atmosfere riaffiorano con lancinante chiarezza: una famiglia felice e anticonformista, che però non l’aveva salvata dall’inferno di crudeltà e ricatti orchestrato da Cordelia, amica e aguzzina. L’unico alleato di Elaine era un occhio di gatto, una biglia dura, fredda, forte, come lei avrebbe voluto diventare.
In un sovrapporsi di passato e presente che attraversa quattro decenni, Elaine esplora le radici della sua personalità adulta, smuove gli strati sommersi della propria coscienza, riconsidera le vie di fuga che la vita le ha offerto. Un romanzo intenso e ironico, in cui ritroviamo la perfezione della scrittura, la trama perfetta e il realismo delle ambientazioni che sono le altre facce del genio della Atwood.
Ochi-de-pisică
Margaret Atwood
Elaine, o pictorita la mijlocul vietii, ajunge cu ocazia unei expozitii retrospective la Toronto, orasul unde a copilarit. Odata cu tablourile pe care le descrie, in mintea ei se deapana scene de demult, imaginile unei familii tot timpul pe fuga, ale unui trio de prietene cu porniri sadice, ale iubitilor care-au invatat-o dragostea, ura sau tradarea, care i-au conturat fiinta. Tulburator, amuzant cu masura, nostalgic, Ochi-de-pisica este romanul unei femei ce se lupta sa descurce firul unei vieti napadite de uitare.
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.
O Coração É o Último a Morrer
Margaret Atwood
Charmaine e Stan estão desesperados: sobrevivem de pequenos trabalhos menores e vivem no carro. Portanto, quando veem um anúncio a Consiliência, uma «experiência social» que oferece empregos estáveis e casa própria, inscrevem-se imediatamente. A única coisa que têm de fazer em troca é ceder a sua liberdade mês sim, mês não, trocando a sua casa por uma cela da prisão. Não tarda, porém, que Stan e Charmaine, sem o saberem um do outro, comecem a desenvolver obsessões apaixonadas pelos seus «Alternantes», o casal que ocupa a sua casa quando estão na prisão. E assim mergulham num pesadelo de desconfiança, culpa e desejo.
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.
Old Babes in the Wood
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.
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.
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.
On Writers and Writing
Margaret Atwood
By the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACEWhat is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which 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 if a writer is to be seen as 'gifted', who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?Margaret Atwood's wide and eclectic reference to other writers, living and dead, is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences as a writer, both in Canada and on the international scene. The lightness of her touch is underlined by a seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing, and by a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of western literature.Praise for On Writers and '...a streetwise, erudite suggestive enquiry into problems and myths of the writer's role. Her light touch on hard thoughts, her humour and eclectic quotations, lend enchantment to an argument that has as many undulating tentacles as a well developed sea anemone' -INDEPENDENT'Her witty, occasionally self-deprecating and always ingenious approach is a delight' -SUNDAY TIMES'A witty and profound rumination about writing' -THE TIMES
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.
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...
Opowieść Podręcznej (Opowieść Podręcznej, #1)
Margaret Atwood
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Wstrząsająca antyutopia o piekle kobiet.
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, aby jej zarządca ją zapłodnił, bo w czasach malejącego przyrostu naturalnego tylko ciężarne Podręczne mają jakąś wartość.
Ale 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…
Órix e Crex (MaddAddam #1)
Margaret Atwood
Nada voltará a ser o mesmo depois de ler este livro. Pode ser que os porcos não voem, mas estão completamente alterados. O mesmo se passa com os lobos e outros animais. Um homem, que em tempos se chamou Jimmy, vive numa árvore, embrulhado no seu lençol e diz chamar-se Homem das Neves. A voz de Órix, a mulher que ele amava, provoca-o e persegue-o. E os Filhos de Crex são agora responsabilidade sua. Como é que o mundo inteiro se desmoronou tão depressa? Com a sua habitual agudeza de espírito e o seu humor negro, Margaret Atwood apresenta-nos um mundo novo, habitado por personagens que não nos deixarão acabado o último capítulo.
Oryks i Derkacz
Margaret Atwood
Narrator poruszającego dzieła kanadyjskiej autorki nazywa siebie Yeti. Śpi na drzewie, nosi stare prześcieradło i opłakuje stratę ukochanej Oryks oraz najlepszego przyjaciela, Derkacza. Powoli umiera z głodu. Żywności poszukuje na pustkowiu, gdzie mnożą się owady, zaś świniony i wilksy plądrują plebsopolie, w których niegdyś żyli zwykli ludzie, oraz w Kompleksach dla ponadprzeciętnych. Gdy usiłuje zrozumieć, co się zdarzyło, musi sięgać pamięcią do wydarzeń sprzed dziesiątków lat. Dlaczego świat nagle rozpadł się na kawałki? Czemu pozostały tylko wspomnienia? Yeti towarzyszą jedynie zielonookie Dzieci Derkacza, dla których jest dziwacznym potworem. Żeby zrozumieć, musi udać się w podwójną podróż: we własną przeszłość i do supernowoczesnej kopuły Derkacza, gdzie zrodziła się zagłada dla świata.
Z ogromną przenikliwością i czarnym poczuciem humoru Margaret Atwood roztacza przed nami perspektywę ponurej i smutnej przyszłości, dziwacznego świata, którego mieszkańców pamiętamy długo po zakończeniu lektury. Oto Margaret Atwood w najlepszej formie.
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.
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.
Oryx e Crake
Margaret Atwood
Imponente e corajoso. Atwood faz melhor que o Orwell. - The New Yorker
Impressionante. Possivelmente o melhor dela desde O conto da aia. – Time Out New York
Nada de carros voadores ou raios verdes que desintegram pessoas e coisas. Em Oryx e Crake, Margaret Atwood retoma a ficção especulativa que a consagrou em O conto da Aia e cria uma distopia absolutamente original, um lugar onde a civilização e a linguagem - e tudo mais que seja próximo ao que conhecemos como humanidade – desapareceram quase completamente. Primeiro de uma trilogia que inclui O ano do Dilúvio e se encerra com Maddadão, Oryx e Crake consolida Margaret Atwood como um dos grandes nomes do gênero ficção científica, com histórias marcadas por questões éticas e morais sobre o futuro da humanidade.
Em Oryx e Crake, a prosa sofisticada de Atwood viaja até um futuro próximo, ainda bastante familiar, mas ao mesmo tempo estranho e bizarro para o leitor. O mundo é apresentado como um lugar pós-apocalíptico e melancólico, habitado por criaturas biologicamente modificadas e tomadas pelo vício. O narrador do romance é o Homem das Neves, um sobrevivente do antigo planeta, que um dia chamou-se Jimmy. No início da trama, ele está em cima de uma árvore, vestindo um velho lençol, lamentando a perda de sua amada Oryx e de seu amigo Crake. Os flashbacks de Jimmy acabam revelando ao leitor que ele testemunhou as experiências genéticas que ajudaram a transformar o planeta num território devastado.
Quando garoto, Jimmy vivia com os pais nos Complexos, o lugar onde moravam os endinheirados e os considerados extraordinários intelectualmente. Agora, precisa encontrar comida em um deserto infestado de insetos e assiste à destruição da Terra dos Plebeus — onde viviam aqueles que eram considerados apenas normais — por porcões e lobocães, animais criados nas experiências transgênicas do passado. Como tudo decaiu tão depressa? O Homem das Neves tenta entender junto com o leitor, enquanto a narrativa retrocede algumas décadas, até sua infância ao lado de Crake. Descobre-se que o grande amigo de Jimmy tornou-se um gênio de caráter duvidoso, cuja personalidade enigmática e ambígua é uma chave para a trama. Foi na bolha hightech de Crake que o Projeto Paradiso, responsável pela modificação da Terra, se desenvolveu. Ele e Jimmy vão formar um tumultuado triângulo amoroso com a bela Oryx, uma ex-criança prostituta que não está muito acostumada a dar ou receber afeto. A delicada relação entre os três gera um ciclo de desamor e desencontro e é um pano de fundo dramático e extremamente simbólico para a derrocada do planeta e da espécie humana.
Como único ser humano a sobreviver, o Homem das Neves tem apenas a companhia dos Filhos de Crake, crianças de laboratório criadas pelo amigo. Elas o tratam como um ídolo, já que ele é o único capaz de decifrar a utilidade e o nome de objetos simples como canetas e bonés, vestígios arqueológicos do mundo "de antigamente" e que elas encontram pelo caminho. Não é por acaso que as epígrafes escolhidas por Atwood para este livro citam Jonathan Swift, autor de As viagens de Gulliver, e Virginia Woolf, de Orlando e Rumo ao farol. Com a maestria de sempre, a autora consegue conjugar uma fábula fantástica, mórbida e cheia de ação, com personagens cujo mundo interior é misterioso e uma constante descoberta.
ORYX Y CRAKE
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Penelope und die zwölf Mägde
Margaret Atwood
Penelope – die spartanische Prinzessin gilt als Sinnbild der treu liebenden Ehefrau und Mutter, die jahrzehntelang geduldig die Heimkehr des heldenhaften Ehemanns erwartet. So erzählt es die »Odyssee«, aber ist es auch die Geschichte, die Penelope selbst erzählen würde? Nein, findet Margaret Atwood. Ohne ein Blatt vor den Mund zu nehmen hält ihre Penelope Rückschau auf ihr Leben, berichtet von der gnadenlosen Konkurrenz mit der hübschen Cousine Helena, von der Zwangsverheiratung mit Odysseus, einem Mann, dem der Ruf vorauseilte, ein Aufschneider zu sein, und den Intrigen und Skandalen am Hofe Ithakas. Ergänzt wird Penelopes Erzählung vom Chor ihrer Mägde, die ihren Dienst mit dem Leben bezahlten und nun nach Gerechtigkeit verlangen.
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.
Penelopia
Margaret Atwood
Şimdi herkesin soluğu tükendiğine göre, artık masal anlatma sırası bende
Homeros´un Odysseia´sında, Odysseus´un karısı ve Troyalı güzel Helena´nın kuzeni Penelope´nin başından geçenler çağlar boyunca bir ibret öyküsü olmuştur. Odysseus´un Troya savaşına gitmesiyle birlikte yirmi yıl yalnız kalan Penelope, ortalığı sarsan dedikodulara karşın İthake krallığını ayakta tutmayı, dik başlı oğlunu büyütmeyi ve kendisine talip olan yüzü aşkın erkeği aynı anda avucunun içine almayı başarmıştır. Odysseus evine döndüğünde, onca yıl kendisine sadık kalan Penelope´nin bütün taliplerini ve nedense hizmetçilerinden on ikisini öldürür.
Antik öyküyü eşsiz bir biçimde bugüne uyarlayan Margaret Atwood, olayların Penelope´yi ve ipe gönderilen on iki hizmetçisini nasıl etkilediğini anlatmayı seçer. Atwood´un kıvrak dili, bilge ve duyarlı yaklaşımıyla öykü, düşündürerek eğlendiren, aynı zamanda da rahatsız eden bir anlatıya dönüşür. Penelope´ye yeni bir yaşam ve gerçeklik kazandırdığı gibi, okuru eski çağların gizemine yanıt aramaya davet eder.
Penelopiada
Margaret Atwood
Penelopiada wywraca homerycki wizerunek Odysa. Atwood pokazuje świat mitycznych wydarzeń z perspektywy Penelopy, oszukiwanej przez lata żony bohatera. Ten okazuje się zakłamanym kobieciarzem, Helena zadufaną w sobie kokietką, dwór zbiorowiskiem postaci o podejrzanych charakterach. Penelopa nie oszczędza także siebie jej historia, legendarna wierność i posłuszeństwo, również mogą okazać się tylko mitem, półprawdą wykreowaną dla potrzeb szerszej publiczności. Margaret Atwood swą powieścią celnie podważa ideę mitu. Błyskotliwym osądem i ciętym dowcipem obala schematy myślenia, proponuje nowe możliwości odczytania utrwalonej w tradycji wersji wydarzeń.
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.
Povestea Slujitoarei
Margaret Atwood
Premiul Arthur C. Clarke
O carte-cult, mai actuală ca niciodată
Un serial-fenomen
Într-o Americă dintr-un viitor deloc îndepărtat, instaurarea violentă a unui regim teocratic creștin și escaladarea abruptă a abuzurilor acestuia ajung să priveze femeile de toate drepturile și libertățile. Ele sunt împărțite în diverse categorii, având roluri precise și sarcini stricte de îndeplinit. Din cauza natalității scăzute, există o castă a Slujitoarelor cărora le revine rolul de „utere umblătoare”, iar Offred face parte din prima lor generație.
Chinuită de o singurătate dureroasă, Offred se străduiește să-și reprime fluxul amintirilor care provin de pe vremea când avea o familie și o viață normală și încearcă să se resemneze pentru a supraviețui în îngrozitoarea lume nouă. Curând însă, descoperă că regulile sunt făcute să fie încălcate, și chiar de către cei care le-au instaurat.
Povestea Slujitoarei este o distopie sumbră și un roman răscolitor, considerat de mulți capodopera scriitoarei canadiene.
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.
Pui de cotoroanţă
Margaret Atwood
Furtuna de William Shakespeare reimaginată
Margaret Atwood a scris romanul Furtunii perfecte, purtându-și cititorii prin Canada zilelor noastre, din societatea elevată a unui mare Festival Shakespeare până în sistemul penitenciar, din lumea coruptei clase politice până în cea a deținuților de drept comun. Fenomenele paranormale, comunicarea cu cei dragi chiar și dincolo de moarte adaugă un plus de originalitate acestei bijuterii literare care se citește cu sufletul la gură și care, deși urmează îndeaproape coordonatele textului-sursă (uzurparea, pierderea, remușcările, dorința de răzbunare, răzbunarea prin iertare), propune un final cu totul neașteptat. „Pui de cotoroanță“ este unul dintre apelativele folosite în Furtuna de Prospero și Ariel pentru Caliban. Ar mai fi de adăugat cuvintele autoarei: „Furtuna este, într-un fel, un musical multimedia timpuriu. Dacă Shakespeare ar scrie azi, ar folosi toate efectele speciale ale tehnologiei.“ Reputatul critic britanic Jonathan Bate consideră Pui de cotoroanță „categoric, cel mai inteligent roman neo-shakespearian.“
Rape Fantasies
Margaret Atwood
"Rape Fantasies" is a short story by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The story, notable for its dark humour, was originally published in the Canadian edition of Dancing Girls in 1977. The story gained greater attention and study when it was later published in the 1985 edition of Norton Anthology of Literature by Women.
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.
Selected Poems 2: 1976 - 1986
Margaret Atwood
Selected Poems 2 is an essential collection from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author Margaret Atwood, tracing her work from 1976-1986. Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Margaret Atwood is also one of our most significant contemporary poets. Selected Poems 2 presents her work in the decade following 1976—important years of change and new themes in her poetry. It includes selections from Two-Headed Poems (1978), True Stories (1981), Interlunar (1984), and prose poems from Murder in the Dark (1983). As in her fiction, Atwood ruminates on oppression and injustice and on the genders and their discontents, but beyond these surface dissonances we hear the music of compassion and fellowship and love. “Marked by an unflinching inspection of the world” ( New York Times Book Review ), Selected Poems 2 contains some of Atwood’s most extraordinary writing and is sure to captivate readers for years to come.
Seme di strega
Margaret Atwood
«C'è una tempesta. E vendetta, decisamente vendetta.» Felix è un regista teatrale di successo. Da parecchie stagioni, le punte di diamante del cartellone del Makeshiweg Theatre Festival sono proprio i suoi allestimenti ingegnosi, provocanti per natura. Eppure, nulla di ciò che ha portato in scena finora potrà reggere il confronto con la brillante, spiazzante rilettura della shakespeariana Tempesta che, all'indomani della morte dell'amata figlia Miranda, Felix si è messo in testa di produrre. O per lo meno, questo è il piano. Se non che, vittima di un volgare tradimento da parte del suo socio in affari, Felix si ritrova d'improvviso a vivere in totale solitudine, estromesso con un colpo di mano dal mondo del teatro, in una catapecchia in mezzo al niente: uno sconfortante luogo pieno di assenze che però si rivela ben presto ideale per rimasticare le sue mire di vendetta contro chi pensava di averlo ormai escluso, giocando d'astuzia, dal palcoscenico della vita. Margaret Atwood, scrittrice visionaria e di impareggiabile acume, reinterpreta La tempesta di Shakespeare e costruisce un romanzo brillante, definito dal britannico Guardian «ribelle, che si legge tutto d'un fiato, spassoso».
Semente de Bruxa
Margaret Atwood
Felix está em seu melhor momento como diretor artístico do Festival de Teatro de Makeshiweg. Suas produções anteriores encantaram e desconcertaram a audiência. Agora ele irá produzir A tempestade como jamais fora encenada: a peça não apenas aumentará sua reputação, mas servirá para curar antigas feridas emocionais. Ou este era o plano. Após um ato de traição inimaginável, Felix exilou-se em uma cabana caindo aos pedaços, assombrado pelas memórias de uma filha perdida, enquanto espera por vingança. E ela chega após doze anos, na forma de um curso de teatro em um presídio. Ali, Felix e seus atores encarcerados finalmente montam A tempestade e preparam uma armadilha para os traidores que o destruíram. Mas irá a peça restaurar a vida de Felix, ao derrubar seus inimigos.
Stone Mattress
Margaret Atwood
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’s 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 stromatalite.
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.
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.
Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales
Margaret Atwood
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments— a thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking collection of stories that affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses.
“Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In “Lusus Naturae,” a young woman, monstrously transformed by a genetic defect, is mistaken for a vampire. And in the title story, a woman who has killed four husbands discovers an opportunity to exact vengeance on the first man who ever wronged her.
Stone Mattress is a collection of unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity.
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.
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Margaret Atwood
When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by “What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?” Her answer is “survival and victims.”
Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives.
Testamentele
Margaret Atwood
Au trecut mai bine de cincisprezece ani de la evenimentele din Povestea Slujitoarei, iar regimul teocratic al Republicii Galaad încă ţine frâiele puterii cu o mână de fier. Dar apar primele semne că Galaadul începe să se erodeze din interior. Exact în acest moment de răscruce, vieţile a trei femei complet diferite se întrepătrund în mod neaşteptat. Urmările pot fi dezastruoase sau pot duce la un viitor mai bun, dar cu siguranţă vor cutremura zidurile lumii care le ţine captive. Rămâne de văzut dacă aceste ziduri se vor şi prăbuşi.
În paginile Testamentelor Margaret Atwood îi deschide cititorului uşa spre cele mai ascunse cotloane ale Galaadului pe măsură ce fiecare personaj feminin din povestea ei e nevoit să-şi dea seama cine este de fapt şi cât de departe ar merge pentru lucrurile în care crede.
„Dragi cititori, toate întrebările pe care mi le-aţi pus despre Galaad şi despre mecanismele lui au fost o sursă de inspiraţie pentru această carte. Sau aproape toate. Cealaltă sursă de inspiraţie a fost lumea în care trăim.“ Margaret Atwood
„Prin această carte, Atwood ne aminteşte de puterea adevărului înaintea răului.“ People
„O poveste captivantă scrisă într-un ritm alert, revoluţionară şi cu accente de melodramă.“ The New York Times
„Toată lumea ar trebui să citească Testamentele.“ Los Angeles Times
„O continuare pe măsura operei care a precedat-o. Acest lucru este posibil şi datorită capacităţii lui Atwood de a surprinde, chiar şi atunci când scrie despre un univers pe care credem că-l cunoaştem atât de bine.“ USA Today
„Femeile din Galaad sunt mai fascinante ca niciodată.“ NPR
„Se prea poate să nu existe scriitor mai potrivit decât Margaret Atwood când vine vorba să aducă în discuţie anxietăţile lumii în care trăim.“ Entertainment Weekly
The Blind Assasin
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 "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.
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.
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.
The Circle Game: Poems
Margaret Atwood
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 Award for Poetry and rapidly attained an international reputation as a classic of modern poetry. This beautiful new edition of The Circle Game contains the complete collection, with an introduction by Sherrill E. Grace of the University of British Columbia.
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
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.
The Door: Poems
Margaret Atwood
The acclaimed poet and Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale contemplates age, duty, and our shared world in this collection of 50 new poems.
Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since Morning in the Burned House, this collection presents fifty poems that range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic. Its range of subjects is equally far-reaching, from intimate personal confessions to global political concerns.
These poems 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 it reminds us once again of Margaret Atwood's unique accomplishments as one of the finest and most celebrated writers of our time.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
The Handmaid's Tale - Kisah Sang Handmaid
Margaret Atwood
Offred adalah Handmaid di Republik Gilead. Para Handmaid dianggap berharga karena indung telur mereka masih bagus. Kalau melawan, Handmaid akan dihukum gantung atau dibuang dari Gilead dan dibiarkan mati karena radiasi nuklir. Offred masih ingat tahun-tahun sebelum Republik Gilead berdiri, ketika dia masih punya nama sendiri, suami, serta anak perempuan. Ketika perempuan masih boleh bekerja, memiliki uang sendiri, akses untuk bersekolah dan mendapat pengetahuan. Tapi kini semua lenyap sudah... Saat ini Offred tinggal di rumah sang Komandan dan istrinya, hanya boleh keluar rumah untuk belanja, berjalan berdua-dua dengan Handmaid lain. Semua perempuan tak boleh membaca buku, karena yang diharapkan dari mereka hanyalah kepatuhan. Dan setiap bulan pada masa subur, Offred harus berbaring di ranjang, berdoa bersama istri sang Komandan sebelum sang Komandan berusaha menghamilinya. Karena kini tugasnya sebagai Handmaid cuma satu: beranak.
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.
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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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 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 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 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 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.
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
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.
The Power
Margaret Atwood
In this stunning bestseller praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emerged--and only women have it (Washington Post). In The Power, the world is a recognizable there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets. From award-winning author Naomi Alderman, The Power is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways. "Captivating, fierce, and unsettling...I was riveted by every page. Alderman's prose is immersive and, well, electric." --New York Times Book Review
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 Secret Loves of Geeks
Margaret Atwood
Cartoonists and professional geeks tell their intimate, heartbreaking, and inspiring stories about love, sex and, dating in this comics and prose anthology, a follow-up to 2016 best-seller The Secret Loves of Geek Girls.Featuring work by Margaret Atwood (Hag-Seed), Gerard Way (Umbrella Academy), Dana Simpson (Phoebe and Her Unicorn), Cecil Castellucci (Soupy Leaves Home), Gabby Rivera (America), Valentine De Landro (Bitch Planet), Amy Chu (Poison Ivy), Sfé R. Monster (Beyond: A queer comics anthology), Michael Walsh (Secret Avengers), and many more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tres historias extravagantes
Margaret Atwood
Juegos de palabras y aventuras imposibles plagan estos tres ingeniosos cuentos de Margaret Atwood, ilustrados por Dušan Petričić. Los lectores quedarán cautivados con Ramsey, Bob y Vera y las increíbles hazañas que logran levar a cabo.
Las ingeniosas historias de esta experta narradora de cuentos divertirán a lectores de todas las edades mientras se les traba la lengua con tantas aliteraciones.
Una joya para todas las edades de la aclamada autora de El cuento de la criada.
True Stories
Margaret Atwood
Poems stress the need to recognize the crimes of repressive regimes, the redeeming power of friendship, the unreliability of perception, and the mystery of nature
Two Scorched Men
Margaret Atwood
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Up in the Tree
Margaret Atwood
Book by Margaret Atwood
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.
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.
You are Happy
Margaret Atwood
A collection of poems written by the author of the Handmaids Tale
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.
Заветите (Разказът на прислужницата, #2)
Margaret Atwood
„Времето ни заедно започва, скъпи ми читателю. Сигурно тези мои листове за теб са чупливо ковчеже със съкровище, което трябва да отвориш много внимателно. Сигурно ще ги разкъсаш или ще ги изгориш – така става с думите.“
В ръцете си държиш опасно оръжие, заредено с тайните на три жени от Галаад. Те ще рискуват живота си за теб. За всички нас.
Преди да влезеш в техния свят, имай предвид тези мисли:
Знанието е сила
и
Историята не се повтаря,
а се римува.
Разказът на прислужницата (Разказът на прислужницата, #1)
Margaret Atwood
Фредова е прислужница в република Галаад. Тя е една от малкото жени, които все още притежават репродуктивни способности. Раждаемостта рязко е спаднала и плодовитостта на жените е рядък дар от Бог, който трябва да бъде контролиран разумно. Това предопределя съдбата на Фредова. Нейната работа е да служи на заможни семейства, като им предостави тялото си. Фредова е прислужница, а това е нейният разказ.
Разказ как веднъж месечно трябва да легне по гръб и да позволи на Командира да проникне в нея, докато съпругата му държи ръцете ѝ.
Разказ как понякога вечер си припомня живота преди, когато е живяла щастливо със съпруга и дъщеря си.
Разказ как е разполагала със собствени пари, достъп до информация, работа, лично пространство.
Разказ как е разполагала със свободата си, преди да стане всичко това.
Това е разказът на Фредова за едно общество, което е сурово, тиранично и фанатично до пълна слепота. Но Фредова няма да ви каже кога се е случило това. Може да е било преди сто години, възможно е да се случи след хилядолетия. Но е възможно и да се случва сега.
Рік Потопу (MaddAddam, #2)
Margaret Atwood
• Мегапопулярна сучасна авторка
• Продовження роману «Орикс і Деркач»
• The Washington Post та The New Yorker рекомендують
Адам Перший, лідер Божих Садівників, провістив Безводний Потоп, Божу кару, що має знищити людство. Разом зі своїми прибічниками він з останніх сил намагається врятувати цей приречений світ. Тут панує Корпорація, облаштовують свої ниці оборудки безпринципні КорпБеКошники та корумпована влада, розквітає буйним цвітом генна інженерія, а природа й навіть сама людина стає конструктором, у якому заввиграшки можна змінити будь-яку деталь. Цей світ надто самовпевнений...
І от пророцтво збулося. Серед тих небагатьох, хто вижив після катастрофи, дві жінки — Рен, молода танцівниця закритого елітного клубу, і Тобі, одна з Божих Садівниць. А чи врятувалися інші? Друзі, рідні, кохані? І що, як загибель не гірша за перспективу життя у світі після Потопу? Кожен шукає і знаходить свої відповіді.
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.
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