Margaret Atwood Libros

En esta brillante secuela de The Handmaid's Tale, la aclamada autora Margaret Atwood responde las preguntas que han cautivado a los lectores durante décadas. Subo y penetro en la oscuridad del interior; o luz Cuando las puertas de la furgoneta se cerraron de golpe después de Offred al final de The Maid's Tale, los lectores no tenían forma de saber cuál sería su futuro: libertad, prisión o muerte. Con la publicación de Los Testamentos, la espera ha terminado. Margaret Atwood recupera la historia quince años después de que Offred entró en lo desconocido, con los asombrosos testimonios de tres narradores del mundo de Gilead. Estimados lectores y lectores, sus preguntas sobre Gilead y su funcionamiento interno han sido la fuente de inspiración para este libro. Bueno, casi todo! El otro es el mundo en el que vivimos. Margaret Atwood La crítica ha dicho ... El evento literario del año. El guardián

El cuento de la criada narra la vida en la distopía de Gilead, donde desastres ambientales y una baja tasa de natalidad llevan a un régimen fundamentalista que oprime militarmente para restaurar valores tradicionales. Offred, una de las pocas mujeres fértiles, es forzada a la servidumbre sexual.

"En 1843, Grace Marks, de dieciséis años, es declarada culpable y sentenciada a cadena perpetua por participar en los asesinatos de Thomas Kinnear, a cuyo servicio trabajaba como sirvienta, y de Nancy Montgomery, ama de llaves y amante de Thomas. Años más tarde, el doctor Simon Jordan es contratado por un grupo de reformistas y espiritualistas que tratan de obtener el indulto de la muchacha. A partir de las nuevas técnicas europeas, el joven médico entrevista a la reclusa y ella le cuenta su historia, desde su infancia en Irlanda y sus años de pobreza y marginalidad en Canadá, acercándose poco a poco al día que asegura no recordar"--

Una conmovedora historia sobre el último habitante del planeta en un inquietante mundo postapocalíptico. Primera parte de la Trilogía de MaddAddam, presenta a Hombre de las Nieves, quien llora la pérdida de su mejor amigo Crake y de la bella Oryx, mientras lucha por sobrevivir en soledad. Antes conocido como Jimmy, se enfrenta a un mundo devastado por desastres naturales y una plaga que ha diezmado a la humanidad. A merced de los elementos y acosado por recuerdos, su única compañía son los Hijos de Crake, seres que lo ven como un profeta. Hombre de las Nieves se cuestiona cómo todo ha cambiado tan rápidamente y emprende un viaje hacia su pasado y hacia la burbuja de alta tecnología creada por Crake, donde todo comenzó. La narrativa nos sumerge en una visión del futuro que es a la vez inquietante y familiar, explorando las consecuencias de la ingeniería genética descontrolada y la pérdida de la humanidad. A través de su travesía, se entrelazan temas de amor, pérdida y la búsqueda de identidad en un mundo transformado.

Al final de Nueve cuentos malvados, Margaret Atwood advierte que el término «cuento» puede alejar una narración breve del realismo social, acercándola al ámbito de los relatos populares y de hadas. En esta colección, Atwood explora nueve historias donde vampiros, seres poseídos y fantasmas se entrelazan con situaciones cotidianas. Una escritora de literatura fantástica, recientemente viuda, enfrenta una tormentosa noche guiada por la voz de su difunto esposo. Una anciana con el síndrome de Charles Bonnet imagina criaturas liliputienses, mientras un grupo populista asalta una residencia de ancianos. Una mujer con malformación congénita es confundida con un vampiro, y un estromatolito de mil novecientos millones de años busca venganza por un antiguo delito. A través de estos relatos, Atwood presenta las facetas más grotescas y malvadas del ser humano, utilizando su característico humor oscuro para reflexionar sobre la vejez y la muerte. Estos cuentos son tanto estremecedores como divertidos, y confirman a la autora canadiense como una aguda observadora de nuestros instintos más oscuros. Su mirada cáustica y humana se convierte en un faro que ilumina en tiempos de incertidumbre.

En 1985, en plena madurez literaria, Atwood reunió una espléndida colección de cuentos en un volumen titulado Chicas bailarinas. Se trata de doce piezas de exquisita factura, donde la autora utiliza sabiamente todas las perspectivas, modulaciones y técnicas hasta alcanzar auténticas joyas, entre cuyos rasgos cabe destacar la agudeza y finura de la observación de los personajes -mujeres preñadas, estudiantes, periodistas, granjeras, ornitólogos, ex esposas y amantes adolescentes-, la perfección de los tonos -lírico, coloquial, distanciado, circunspecto, cómico- y la destreza de las resoluciones, que no ceden nunca a soluciones fáciles.

Autores de todo el mundo rinden homenaje al “Quijote”. Las reflexiones de grandes intelectuales internacionales sobre el mítico caballero andante.

Vol. 1: Oryx and Crake: 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

Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation, sexual intimacy, and childbirth to caretaking, household rituals, and death. These writings represent a healing vision of the sacred that emerges from the particular consciousness of women-a vision that partakes of the world of earth and flesh.

Margaret Atwood's collection showcases her evolution as a poet over six decades, featuring vital poems that capture the essence of living in a complex world. The work includes a diverse range of characters, from mythological figures to everyday people, each exploring profound themes of life, death, and the human experience. Atwood's unique blend of reality and fantasy invites readers to reflect on their own joys, sorrows, desires, and fears, solidifying her status as a pivotal figure in contemporary literature.

Margaret Atwoods Gedichte bieten einen tiefen Einblick in ihr Leben und ihre Persönlichkeit. Diese zweisprachige Auswahl umfasst Werke aus über zwanzig Lyrikbänden und zeigt die leidenschaftliche Kanadierin, Feministin und Umwelt-Aktivistin sowie ihre Rolle als Reisende, Naturliebhaberin, Mutter und Geliebte.

A collection of poems by Margaret Atwood, written between 1976 and 1986.

Houghton Mifflin now proudly publishes Selected Poems II, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of the last ten years. Underlying oppression and injustice, we hear the music of compassion and fellowship.

»Lasst uns alle hoffen.« - Die Gedichte eines Lebens Mit »Dearly« veröffentlicht Margaret Atwood nach zehn Jahren erstmals wieder einen Lyrikband. Es geht darin um all das, womit sie sich, berühmtermaßen, auseinandersetzt: ob hinreißend genaue Naturbeschreibungen oder witzige Begegnungen mit Außerirdischen, ob drängende politische Fragen oder Mythen und Legenden. Klug, dabei oft verspielt sprechen die Gedichte von Abwesenheit, Altern und Rückschau, aber auch von Neubeginn und Glück. »Dearly« ist Atwood pur, voller Einsichten, Empathie und Humor. »Lyrik handelt vom Kern der menschlichen Existenz: Leben, Tode, Erneuerung, Wandel; in aller Fairness und Unfairness, in aller Ungerechtigkeit und – manchmal – Gerechtigkeit.« Margaret Atwood Ins Deutsche übertragen von Büchner-Preisträger Jan Wagner

The stunning graphic novel adaptation • A must-read and collector’s item for fans of “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is 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. Provocative, startling, prophetic, The Handmaid’s Tale has long been a global phenomenon. With this beautiful graphic novel adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s modern classic, beautifully realized by artist Renée Nault, the terrifying reality of Gilead has been brought to vivid life like never before.

Prunella, a proud, prissy princess plans to marry a pinhead prince who will pamper her until a wise old woman's spell puts a purple peanut on the princess's pretty nose.

Substantially enlarged and updated for this new edition, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the definitive guide to the vast and extraordinarily rich heritage of literature written in English. It covers all the major novelists, poets and dramatists - from Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens to Conrad and to contemporary writers from all over the English-speaking world - Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich, Les Murray, Wole Soyinka, and Janet Frame. More than 100 specialist contributors provide detailed biographical and critical articles not only on writers and their works. Substantial coverage is also given to such literary genres as popular fiction, science fiction, detective novels, and children's classics. All literary concepts and movements are described in detail. • Over 4,500 alphabetical entries, cross-referenced throughout • Includes all literature in English - British, Irish, American, Australian, African, Canadian, New Zealand, Indian and Caribbean • Illustrated throughout with over 115 photographs and line drawings

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.

In Atwood's poems, Helen of Troy appears as a tabletop dancer and Miss July muses on life as a cheesecake queen. There are also poems dealing with love, with memory, and the fragility of the natural world. An elegiac series on the death of a parent completes this collection.

When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family. A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod's life, from babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man?

First chapters from forthcoming books and unpublished stories or poems from: Margaret Atwood ; Maeve Binchy ; Tracy Chevalier ; Harlan Coben ; Paulo Coelho ; J.M. Coetzee ; Nicholas Evans ; Mark Haddon ; Nick Hornby ; Marian Keyes ; Stephen King ; Alexander McCall Smith ; Ian McEwan ; Vikram Seth ; Joanna Trollope ; Scott Turow.

From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek 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 humour 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) to how to define granola, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—the second book of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, set in the visionary world of Oryx and Crake, is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. The long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. Among the survivors are Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Amid shadowy, corrupt ruling powers and new, gene-spliced life forms, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move, but they can't stay locked away.

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.

Contents: Fenstad's Mother / Charles Baxter -- Customs of the country / Madison Smartt Bell -- Living to be a hundred / Robert Boswell -- Black hand girl / Blanche McCrary Boyd -- Kubuku Rides (This is it) / Larry Brown -- Ralph the Duck / Frederick Busch -- White angel / Michael Cunningham -- Flowers of boredom / Rick DeMarinis -- Edie: a life / Harriet Doerr -- Concert party / Mavis Gallant -- Why I decide to kill myself and other jokes / Douglas Glover -- Disneyland / Barbara Gowdy -- Aunt Moon's young man / Linda Hogan -- Displacement / David Wong Louie -- Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Meneseteung / Alice Munro -- What men love for / Dale Ray Phillips -- Strays / Mark Richard -- Boy on the train / Arthur Robinson -- Letter writer / M.T. Sharif. Selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Margaret Atwood with Shannon Ravenel; with an introduction by 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 God's 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 assault; 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 - a moving and dramatic conclusion to the internationally celebrated trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.

A reference source to the vast heritage of literature in the English language throughout the world. It gives a clear explanation of genres, movements, critical terms and literary concepts from irony to structuralism, from Romanticism to science fiction. The writers are listed by alphabetical order with a writeup about each one.

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here. Un mundo feliz es un clásico de la literatura del siglo XX, una sombría metáfora sobre el futuro. La novela describe un mundo en el que finalmente se han cumplido los peores vaticinios: triunfan los dioses del consumo y la comodidad y el orbe se organiza en diez zonas en apariencia seguras y estables. Sin embargo, este mundo ha sacrificado valores humanos esenciales, y sus habitantes son procreados in vitro a imagen y semejanza de una cadena de montaje.

Collected essays and journalism from the bestselling author of The Blind Assassin and Oryx and Crake. First publication.

A treasure trove of collected works from the legendary author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace Queen Gertrude gives Hamlet a piece of her mind. An ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves. A reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly wrong. Bones and Murder is a bewitching cocktail of prose and poetry, fiction and fairytales, as well as some of Atwood's own illustrations. It's pure distilled Atwood: deliciously strong and bittersweet. 'A marvellous miniature sample case of Atwood's sensuous and sardonic talents' Times Literary Supplement

The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945. Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family’s history. Intertwined with Iris’s account are chapters from the scandalous novel that made Laura famous, in which two illicit lovers amuse each other by spinning a tale of a blind killer on a distant planet. These richly layered stories-within-stories gradually illuminate the secrets that have long haunted the Chase family, coming together in a brilliant and astonishing final twist.

Returning to the city of her youth for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of her past.

In this collection of short works that defy easy categorization, Margaret Atwood displays the trademark wit and virtuosity of her bestselling novels, brilliant stories, and insightful poetry. Among the miniatures gathered here are Gertrude offering Hamlet a piece of her mind, the real truth about the Little Red Hen, a reincarnated bat explaining how Bram Stoker got Dracula all wrong, and the five home-economist methods of making a man. There are parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fictions, reconfigured fairy tales, and other diminutive masterpieces - punctuated with charming illustrations by the author.

In collaboration with the Financial Times: powerful, urgent reflections on the value of democracy from eleven women writers and thought-leaders

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers. 'Wonderful ... all killer, no filler' Red Magazine 'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist 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.

Margaret Atwood's fascinating account of her lifelong relationship with science and speculative fiction.

A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling collection of ten short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour and the many textures lying beneath ordinay life.

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman''s nightmare. She is also dead. Just to make sure Tony, Roz andd Charis are there for the funeral. But five years on, as the three women share an indulgent, sisterly lunch, the unthinkable happens; 'with waves of ill will flowing out of her like cosmic radiation', Zenia is back...

The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist, poet -- and cultural phenomenon Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Margaret 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. 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. Dearly is a pure Atwood delight, and long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight, empathy and humour.

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.

From the highly acclaimed novelist, comes a new collection of poetry. She is 'the quiet Mata Hari' of poetry - Michael Ondaatje

Treacherously toppled from his post as director of the Makeshiweg Festival on the eve of his production of The Tempest, Felix retreats to a backwoods hovel to lick his wounds and mourn his lost daughter. And also to plot his revenge. After twelve years his chance appears in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will stage his Tempest at last, and snare the traitors who destroyed him. But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall ?

A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds... In these exceptional short stories, by turns funny and searingly honest, Margaret Atwood captures brilliantly the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.

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.

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.

Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat. First meat, then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds--everything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling she's being eaten. She really ought to feel consumed with passion. But she just feels...consumed. A brilliant and powerful work rich in irony and metaphor, The Edible Woman is an unforgettable masterpiece by a true master of contemporary literary fiction.

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is a non-fiction anthology mixing prose, comics, and illustrated stories on the lives and loves of an amazing cast of female creators. Featuring work by Margaret Atwood (The Heart Goes Last), Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer), Trina Robbins (Wonder Woman), Marguerite Bennett (Marvel's A-Force), Noelle Stevenson (Nimona), Marjorie Liu (Monstress), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), and over fifty more creators. It's a compilation of tales told from both sides of the tables: from the fans who love video games, comics, and sci-fi to those that work behind the scenes: creators and industry insiders.

A new collection of dazzling short fiction from Margaret Atwood

Features pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people or are they? This collection of short stories maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.

A superb collection from one of our best-loved writers, these interrelated stories brilliantly capture the myriad uncertainties, ambiguities and epiphanies of real life. A moving book of fiction which could be seen as a collection of eleven stories that is almost a novel...or a novel broken up into eleven interrelated stories. It resembles a photograph album - a series of clearly observed moments that trace the course of a life, and also of the other 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, times change, and every decade is here, from the 1930s through the 50s, 60s and 70s to the present day. The stories follow the central character through large cities, suburbs, farms and northern forests, and through the cycle of childhood and adolescence into adulthood.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.

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.

A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. These stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to do with inherited relics such as World War II parade swords. They feature beloved cats, a confused snail, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, philosopher-astronomer-mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, a cabal of elderly female academics, and an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales. At the heart of the collection is a stunning sequence that follows a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love -- and what comes after. The glorious range of Atwood's creativity and humanity is on full beam in these tales, which by turns delight, illuminate and quietly devastate.

The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and soon all roads are closed. There's a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young religious women forbidden to wear their headscarves. Islamists are poised to win the local elections and Ka is falling in love with the beautiful and radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, he finds himself pursued by terrorism in a city wasting away under the shadow of Europe. In the midst of growing religious and political violence, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act . . . Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury. 'A novel of profound relevance to our present moment' The Times

Margaret Atwood's classic short fictions reissued with a stunning new jacket style along with others from Margaret Atwood's backlist

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—this story of an artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec is a provocative blend of literary mystery, psychological thriller, and spiritual journey. Accompanied by her boyfriend and a young married couple, the artist searches her abandoned childhood home for clues her parents may have left. But in the disorienting, transformative isolation of the wilderness, her friends’ marriage begins to crumble, sex becomes a catalyst for conflict, and violence and death lurk just beneath the surface. As her relentless probing leads to an electrifying confrontation with her own suppressed secrets, she rapidly descends into what could be either madness or the starkest self-knowledge. Margaret Atwood’s haunting masterpiece is permeated with suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose.

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. "From the Paperback edition."

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…

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs and in a rather desperate state. So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of Consilience - a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs and a home of their own - they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for this suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month, swapping their home for a prison cell. At first, all is well. But slowly, unknown to the other, Stan and Charmaine develop a passionate obsession with their counterparts, the couple that occupy their home when they are in prison. Soon the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt and sexual desire take over, and Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.

Rennie Wilford, a young jounalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.

Set in a New York apartment building, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of neighbours has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Emma Donoghue and Celeste Ng. One week into lockdown, the tenants of a run-down apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening 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 before now - become real neighbours. A dazzling, heartwarming and ultimately surprising narrative, Fourteen Days is an ode to the power of storytelling and human connection. Includes writing from: Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Jennine Capo Crucet, Pat Cummings, Joseph Cassara, Angie Cruz, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Maria Hinojosa, Mira Jacob, Erica Jong, CJ Lyons, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Mary Pope Osborne, Doug Preston, Alice Randall, Caroline Randall, Ishmael Reed, Roxana Robinson, Nelly Rosario, James Shapiro, Hampton Sides, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rachel Vail, Weike Wang, DeShawn Charles Winslow, Meg Wolitzer

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.

A collection of poems selected by poets as those that first inspired them includes timeless favorites and insightful essays by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners including Roethke, Pinsky, and Heaney.

The story of Penelope -- as told by herself. In The Odyssey, Penelope -- daughter of King Icarius of Sparta, and the cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy -- is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife. Atwood's dazzling retelling of the old myth is as haunting as it is wise and compassionate, as disturbing as it is entertaining. With incomparable wit and verve, she gives the story of Penelope new life and reality. "Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local--a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than The Odyssey, especially for the details of Penelope's parentage, her early life and marriage, and the scandalous rumours circulating about her. I've chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to her 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." --from Margaret Atwood's Introduction to The Penelopiad

This omnibus edition contains two of Margaret Atwood's offbeat and quirky tales: "Cat's Eye" and "Wilderness Tips".

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.

Margaret Atwood spricht mit dem Journalisten Caspar Shaller über ihre Gedichte und Romane, über Totalitarismus und die Post-Truth-Ära, über Feminismus, die #MeToo-Debatte und über Beyoncé. Die unfreiwillige Prophetin der ökologischen Katastrophe und des wiedererstarkenden Faschismus erzählt auch davon, wie die rot-weißen Roben der Figuren aus ihrem dystopischen Roman Der Report der Magd zu einem Meme der Anti-Trump-Bewegung wurden und wie sie selbst sich heute politisch engagiert. Hellwach, kämpferisch und
mit tiefer Menschenkenntnis beweist Atwood, dass sie auch mit achtzig Jahren nichts
an intellektueller Brillanz und politischem Gespür eingebüßt hat – ebenso wenig wie an Humor.

Die Drei drolligen Dramen kitzeln die Lachmuskeln. Sie führen in die Welt der aufregenden Abenteuer und der Alliteration, der gleichen Anfangslaute. Die drei Geschichten für kleine und große Kinder ab 7 Jahren wollen laut vorgelesen oder selbst laut gelesen werden. Rüpel Ramsay und die randalierenden Radieschen Ramsay nimmt vor seiner raubeinigen Restfamilie – Ron, Rollo und Ruby – Reißaus. Bedauernswerter Bob und Düstere Dorinda Von Baby Bob und der düsteren Dorinda, deren dünnlicher Dad und dickliche Mum bei einem Dammbruch in Dschibuti verloren gegangen sind … Die wandernde Wanda und Witwe Wischwaschs Wunder-Wäscherei Die wandernde Wanda wird in einen Weidenkorb gezwängt und landet mit drei weiteren Waisen in der Wunder-Waschküche von Witwe Wischwasch …

Bloemlezing van gedichten over of van politiek vervolgden.

Diese Geschichte über die Abenteuer zweier Kinder, die in einem Baum leben, ist typisch Atwood – verspielt, skurril und ironisch. Die perfekte Integration von Worten und Bildern schafft ein stimmiges und erfreuliches Ganzes.

Die kanadische Autorin präsentiert nach langer Pause eine neue Gedichtsammlung, die sich mit historischen und mythologischen Themen, der Liebe sowie Meditationen über den Tod des Vaters beschäftigt.

En France, peu de gens savent que la grande romancière canadienne Margaret Atwood écrit de la poésie. Mieux encore, que cette poésie constitue le terreau dans lequel s’enracine son œuvre romanesque. Dans Le Journal de Susanna Moodie, Margaret Atwood relate la vie d’une pionnière venue d’Angleterre au XIXème siècle. Susanna Moodie n’est pas un personnage de fiction, mais une figure emblématique de la nation et de la littérature canadiennes. Étrangère sans ressources, elle découvre la misère, la solitude, la vie sauvage dans les forêts du grand Nord, aux confins du rêve et de la folie. Si nous publions aujourd’hui ce recueil en France, c’est qu’il aborde des questions qui nous taraudent : la fragilité de la vie, l’identité nationale, la condition de l’immigrant.

Die gefeierte Schriftstellerin Margaret Atwood lässt in ihren neuen Gedichten ein vielschichtiges Panorama der Welt entstehen, voller Lakonie, Witz und stiller Trauer. »Und wird der Boden/ noch tragen? Und wie/ lange noch?« Margaret Atwoods neuer Gedichtband erkundet in einer klaren, beinahe entblößenden Sprache die Ungewissheiten und Launen der verstreichenden Zeit. Sie widmet sich dem Leben in all seinen Facetten: der Liebe, dem Verlust der Eltern und der Kindheit, der Selbstwahrnehmung des Dichters, dem nahenden Tod. Prägnant und bildreich bewegen sich die Gedichte zwischen lyrischem und ironischem, abwägendem und waghalsigem Ton. Sie brechen ab, schlagen Haken, setzen wieder neu an und weisen schließlich mit prophetischer Bestimmtheit den Weg durch die Tür - hinaus, in die Dunkelheit: "Die Tür schwingt auf:/ O Gott der Scharniere,/ Gott der langen Reisen,/ du hast die Treue gehalten./ Es ist dunkel da drin./ Du vertraust dich der Dunkelheit an./ Du trittst ein./ Die Tür schwingt zu."

Ein persönliches Werk von Margaret Atwood, das einen geistreichen und bitterbösen Streifzug durch die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele bietet. Es behandelt Themen wie Mord, Vampiren und die Vorlieben von Männern und zeigt die Autorin von einer ganz anderen Seite.