Margaret Atwood Libri

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.

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...

In questa brillante selezione di saggi—che include tre nuovi pezzi—l'autrice premiata e best-seller offre una visione divertente, erudita, curiosa e sorprendentemente profetica su tutto, dalla questione se Il racconto dell'ancella sia una distopia all'importanza di definire il granola. Si cercano risposte a domande fondamentali come... • Perché le persone in tutte le culture raccontano storie? Include riflessioni sulla scrittura de Il racconto dell'ancella, I testamenti, Oryx & Crake e altre opere amate di Atwood. • Quanto di te stesso puoi dare via senza svanire? • Come possiamo vivere sul nostro pianeta? • È vero? E è giusto? • Cosa hanno a che fare gli zombie con l'autoritarismo? In oltre cinquanta pezzi, Atwood indirizza la sua prodigiosa intelligenza e il suo umorismo arguto verso il mondo, riportandoci ciò che scopre. Questo periodo turbolento ha portato la fine della storia, un crollo finanziario, l'ascesa di Trump e una pandemia. Dalla questione di quando dare consigli ai giovani (risposta: solo quando richiesto) alle opinioni di Atwood sulla crisi climatica, non abbiamo una guida migliore per i molteplici e vari misteri del nostro universo.

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 terra è sconvolta da una catastrofe planetaria, in cui si muove un unico sopravvissuto. A fargli compagnia ci sono alcuni esseri apparentemente umani ma creati artificialmente. Come si è giunti a tutto questo? Ce lo narra il protagonista, l'ultimo degli uomini, attraverso il racconto della sua vita che coincide con il processo di distruzione del pianeta e della razza umana. Un romanzo che, mentre porta in scena un intenso e archetipico rapporto d'amore e di amicizia tra due uomini e una donna, sferra attacchi violenti contro quella scienza che rinuncia a una visione umana del mondo, che dimentica e annulla l'esigenza più profonda, e quindi inestirpabile, dell'umanità: la spiritualità in tutte le sue molteplici espressioni.

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.

Marian McAlpin è una giovane donna canadese spiritosa e ben educata. Ha un lavoro insoddisfacente per le "Indagini di Mercato Seymour", un fidanzato di nome Peter e un'amica ferocemente femminista con la quale divide l'appartamento. Poi, un giorno Marian diventa matta. O almeno pensa di esserlo diventata dato che all'improvviso smette di mangiare. il fatto è che Marian non riesce più a capire la differenza tra sé e il cibo. E' come se vivesse nel terrore di essere divorata. Dal lavoro, dagli amici, dal fidanzato. E per non farsi mangiare, non mangia. Comincia così una riscossa tragicomica contro tutti i potenziali divoratori in un ritmo frenetico dettato dalla necessità di non morire di fame. Con un finale a sorpresa ai limiti del cannibalesco. Un romanzo di straordinaria modernità.

La presenza di un gatto in famiglia non è importante solo per il benefico influsso di un pezzetto di natura selvaggia (o quasi) in casa, per contrastare lo stress o far crescere i bambini in modo più equilibrato. Questo libro mostra i benefici del gatto su autostima e self-control, sullo sviluppo della creatività, dell'attenzione all'ambiente e agli altri "umani", e addirittura sull'accettazione delle gerarchie famigliari. Il volume contiene un contributo di Igor Sibaldi sul "gatto-maestro" dal punto di vista dell'antropologia e della teologia.

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.

Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion.The Handmaid's Tale and its iconic images - the red of the Handmaids, the blue of the Wives, the looming Gileadean Eye - have been adapted into a film, an opera, a ballet, and multi-award-winning TV series.

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.

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

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.

Ogni mattino Bod fa colazione con le buone cose che prepara la signora Owens. Poi va a scuola e ascolta le lezioni del maestro Silas. E il pomeriggio passa il tempo con Liza, sua compagna di giochi. Bod sarebbe un bambino normale. Se non fosse che Liza è una strega sepolta in un terreno sconsacrato. Silas è un fantasma. E la signora Owens è morta duecento anni fa. Bod era ancora in fasce quando è scampato all'omicidio della sua famiglia gattonando fino al cimitero sulla collina, dove i morti l'hanno accolto e adottato per proteggerlo dai suoi assassini. Da allora è Nobody, il bambino che vive tra le tombe, e grazie a un dono della Morte sa comunicare con i defunti. Dietro le porte del cimitero nessuno può fargli del male. Ma Bod è un vivo, e forte è il richiamo del mondo oltre il cancello. Un mondo in cui conoscerà l'amicizia dei suoi simili, ma anche l'impazienza di un coltello che lo aspetta da quattordici lunghissimi anni...

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.

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.

This volume is a reference source to literature in the English language throughout the world. It provides a survey of the world-wide literary tradition of this area, and offers explanations of genres, movements, critical terms and literary concepts.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) prefigura, in questo romanzo, una società pianificata in nome del razionalismo produttivistico, votata all'assoluta perfezione. In occasione del suo centenario la Mondadori ripropone in tiratura limitata una scelta di opere che hanno segnato la storia della collana "Medusa", riprendendone l'originale veste grafica ed editoriale.

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

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 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.

An award-winning collection of ten stories that charts the complexities of modern life and explores the strange and secret places of the heart. The gruesome discoveries of an archaeological dig in Britain find parallels in a contemporary love affair; a girl disappears without a trace and returns to haunt a collection of landscape paintings; a nineteenth-century case of mass-poisoning on the famous Franklin Expedition stirs memories of a dead friend; a woman exacts a fittingly wicked revenge on her ex-lover; a well-known journalist is betrayed by a former mentor and friend. Brilliantly rendered, disturbing, poignant at times, scathingly humorous at others, "Wilderness Tips imbues the familiar world in which we live with indelible truths. "From the Hardcover edition.

This is the wise, unsettling, drastic story of three women whose lives share a common wound: Zenia, a woman they first met as university students in the sixties. Zenia is smart and beautiful, by turns manipulative, vulnerable - and irresistible. She has entered into their separate lives to ensnare their sympathy, betray their trust, and exploit their weaknesses. Now Zenia, thought dead, has suddenly reappeared. In this richly layered narrative, Atwood skilfully evokes the decades of the past as she retraces three women's lives, until we are back in the present - where it's yet to be discovered whether Zenia's "pure, free-wheeling malevolence" can still wreak havoc. "The Robber Bride" reports from the farthest reaches of the sex wars and is one of Margaret Atwood's most intricate and subversive novels yet. "From the Hardcover edition."

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.

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.

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.

A Kars, al confine tra Turchia, Armenia e Georgia, alcune giovani ragazze si suicidano, apparentemente costrette a togliersi il velo all'università. Il poeta Ka, esule turco in Germania, è inviato a Kars per un reportage e inizia a indagare, lacerato dal confronto tra Occidente e Islam. La neve cade incessantemente, mentre la città, un miscuglio di etnie e fazioni politiche, è segnata da tensioni tra turchi, curdi, georgiani, nazionalisti laici e integralisti religiosi, con la presenza della polizia segreta, dell'esercito e dei terroristi islamici. Durante la sua indagine, Ka rivede Ipek, una bella compagna di università di cui si innamora, sognando di portarla con sé in Germania. Per realizzare questo sogno, è disposto a tutto. La situazione si complica quando una compagnia teatrale mette in scena un dramma degli anni Venti a favore della laicità, in cui una donna brucia il chador in pubblico. Durante lo spettacolo, una protesta di studenti di un liceo religioso sfocia in violenza. Ka, coinvolto suo malgrado, si trova in una posizione confusa, incapace di rispondere alla domanda sulla fede. Pur affermando di aver ritrovato Allah a Kars, la sua vera ricerca è quella della felicità, in un contesto di conflitto tra culture.

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

From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Dancing Girls and Other Stories showcases Margaret Atwood's masterly skill for storytelling. Students, journalists, farmers, birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls.

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.

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments • By turns satiric, thrilling, and terrifying, Bodily Harm charts the dark currents of the lust for power—both sexual and political—as it builds to a devastating climax. Rennie Wilford is a journalist who writes about the latest trends and considers herself an expert on the superficial surfaces of life. When her own life takes a dark turn, she seeks to recuperate by flying to the Caribbean to research a fluffy travel piece. But her carelessly chosen destination, the tiny island of St. Antoine, is on the verge of a violent revolution and Rennie soon finds herself ensnared in a world of corruption and treachery and unsure whom to trust.

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.

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.