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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.
| Автор | Margaret Atwood, Atwood M |
| Жанр | Современная проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid's Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before. "Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us." Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2019 |
Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2019 |
A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers. 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...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, K. Shamsie |
| Год | 2023 |
Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years.
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2021 |
A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers. 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...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, K. Shamsie |
| Год | 2023 |
These wise and witty writings home in on Shakespeare, tree stumps, ecological disasters, bodies (male and female), and theology, amongst other matters. We hear Gertrude's version of what really happened in Hamlet; an ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves,and a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly wrong. Good Bones is pure distilled Atwood - deliciously strong and bittersweet.
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2010 |
Eine erschreckend-realistische Vision der Welt von morgen – und einer der besten Romane aller Zeiten Frauen als unterdruckte Gebarmaschinen. Ein totalitarer Staat, der keine Gnade kennt. Und eine stille Heldin, die den Ausbruch versucht: „Der Report der Magd“ ist gro?e Literatur und noch viel mehr. Fur Millionen Leserinnen auf der ganzen Welt ist Margaret Atwood die wichtigste literarische Stimme eines warnenden Feminismus. Ihre beklemmende Dystopie loste bei Erscheinen im Jahr 1985 einen...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2021 |
Kanada, in den 1930er Jahren: Laura, funfzehnjahrige Tochter eines Fabrikanten, verfallt einem Gewerkschaftsagitator. Doch auch fur ihre Schwester Iris verkorpert er das romantische Ideal eines Mannes. Als Laura einige Jahre spater von seinem Tod erfahrt, begeht sie Selbstmord. Zuruck bleibt ein Manuskript mit dem Titel „Der blinde Morder“, das Laura postum beruhmt macht. Aber ist sie wirklich die Autorin? Iris versucht Jahre spater, sich ruckblickend Klarheit uber die Geschehnisse zu...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2021 |
Toronto, 1843: Das junge Dienstmadchen Grace wird mit sechzehn des Doppelmordes an ihren Arbeitgebern schuldig gesprochen. In letzter Sekunde wandelt das Gericht ihr Todesurteil in eine lebenslange Gefangnisstrafe um. Sie verbringt Jahre hinter Gittern, bis man sie schlie?lich entlasst. Im Haushalt des Anstaltdirektors begegnet sie dem Nervenarzt Simon, der ihrer Geschichte auf den Grund gehen will: Ist Grace eine gemeingefahrliche Verbrecherin oder unschuldig? Margaret Atwood hat einen Roman...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2021 |
Die lang erwartete Fortsetzung des Weltbestsellers „Report der Magd“ Als am Ende vom „Report der Magd“ die Tur des Lieferwagens und damit auch die Tur von Desfreds „Report“ zuschlug, blieb ihr Schicksal fur uns Leser ungewiss. Was erwartet sie: Freiheit? Gefangnis? Der Tod? Mit „Die Zeuginnen“ nimmt Margaret Atwood den Faden der Erzahlung funfzehn Jahre spater wieder auf. Das Regime im totalitaren Schreckensstaat Gilead ist weiterhin an der Macht, doch die Zeichen, dass der Anfang vom Ende nah...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2021 |
Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her pre-revolution life in...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2010 |
Atwood's first new fiction publication since The Testaments, this deeply personal collection includes 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 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,...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2023 |
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...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2006 |
In this funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient collection of essays cultural icon Margaret Atwood asks: - 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...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2022 |
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...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2013 |
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband’s return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder. The Myths series brings together some of the world’s finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong,...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2018 |
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...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2022 |