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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 |
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 |
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 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 |
Discover this sharp, funny short story collection from the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments 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...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2022 |
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. All ordinary people. Or are they? In brilliant flashes of fantasy, humour and unexpected violence, Margaret Atwood reveals the complexities of human relationships and maps the motivations we scarcely know we have within us. Populated...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2022 |
A clever and addictive thriller from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Rennie Wilford is a young journalist running from her life. When she takes an assignment to a Caribbean island she tumbles into a world where no one is quite what they seem, least of all 'Yankee' Paul. Is Paul a drug smuggler? A CIA operative? Either way he's trouble and his offer to Rennie of a no-hooks, no strings affair, will suddenly draw her into in a lethal web of...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2022 |
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 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 ordinary life.
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach ... The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and desire to be consumed.
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2021 |
Світ безповоротно розділено: еліта і плебеї, науковці й простаки. Через перенаселення і глобальне потепління, яке зайшло дуже далеко, Земля може стати непридатною для життя. Роздроблене людство викачує останні ресурси з виснаженої планети. Дітей можна замовити, а нові органи вирощують у тілах гібридів. Здається, цей світ приречений. І тоді двоє друзів, Сніголюд та Деркач, і їхня подруга Орикс стають учасниками проєкту «Парайдайс», що має створити расу нових людей. Таких, що не вигадають собі...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Жанр | Социальная фантастика, Зарубежная фантастика |
| Год | 2021 |
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband, from writer of romances to distinguished poet - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identiities. She decides to escape to an Italain hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organise her own death...
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Год | 2021 |
The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes?
Now with additional material: book club discussion points and an interview with Margaret Atwood about the real-life events that inspired The Testaments and The Handmaid's Tale.
| Автор | Margaret Atwood |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2020 |