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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 markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies.Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.

Toronto, primi anni Novanta. Tony, Roz e Charis si conoscono dai tempi dell'universita e sono tre tipi completamente diversi tra loro. Cio che le accomuna, ed e alla base della loro amicizia, e Zenia, entrata nella vita di ciascuna di loro portandosi via i loro uomini; data per, morta ora riappare piu splendida e conturbante che mai. Cercando di scoprire il mistero, le tre amiche percorrono la loro storia personale, con le ferite d'infanzia che le hanno segnate.

Pagar (con la misma moneda) es una investigación imaginativa y profunda sobre la idea de la deuda como tema central de la religión, la literatura y la estructura de las sociedades humanas. Al investigar el modo en que el concepto de deuda ha conformado nuestro pensamientos (a traves de las historias que nos contamos unos a otros, de conceptos como equilibrio, venganza o pecado y del modo en que establecemos nuestras relaciones sociales), Atwood demuestra que la idea de deuda se ha ido formando en la imaginacion humana y es una de las metaforas mas dinamicas que existen.

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. ''Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between school bully and victim...Atwood''s games are played, exquisitely, by little girls'' LISTENER An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize

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. 'Margaret Atwood not only has a sense of humour, she has wit and style in abundance ...a joy to read' Good Housekeeping 'Written with a brilliant angry energy' Observer 'A witty, elegant, generous and patient writer' Punch

Elizabeth, monstrous yet pitiable, Nate, her husband, a patchwork man, gentle, disillusioned; Lesje, a younger woman at the natural history museum, for whom dinosaurs are as important as men. A sexual triangle; three people in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love. . . .

Margaret Atwood (Ottawa, 1939) se especializó en Literatura Inglesa en el Radcliffe College. En 1964 publicó su primera novela, The Edible Woman, a la que han seguido Ojo de gato (Ediciones B), El hu

Margaret Atwood, una de los novelistas más prestigiosos de la narrativa mundial de hoy en día, plasma en El Año del Diluvio, su última novela, una visión postapocalíptica del mundo tras una catástrofe global. Como en su novela anterior, Oryx y Crake (algunos de cuyos personajes reaparecen en la presente obra), Atwood describe el horror de un mundo en el que la humanidad, en aras del progreso cientifico y tecnologico, no solo altera el medio ambiente sino que se autodestruye. Siempre critica con los problemas del mundo actual, la autora describe, en esta novela de anticipacion especulativa, la catastrofe planetaria resultante del descontrolado abuso de las industrias farmaceuticas y de los poderes politicos y economicos que desoyen los alegatos de las ciencias ecologicas. Narrada desde el punto de vista de dos mujeres, la joven Ren y Toby, El año del Diluvio cuenta la epopeya de quienes sobreviven al desastre y, libres de la decadencia moral en que la lucha de sectas y religiones habia sumido a la humanidad, emprenden una nueva vida.

At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction," a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must.

Una giovane donna ritorna dopo molti anni alla casa isolata dove ha passato infanzia e adolescenza, allarmata dalla notizia dell'improvvisa sparizione del padre. La casa si trova su un'isola deserta, al centro di un grande lago del Quebec: la porta e aperta, la casa e vuota, in una stanza ci sono fogli pieni di indecifrabili disegni. Per i tre amici che accompagnano la ragazza, la gita sull'isola ha il sapore di un'avventura turistica. Ma per lei la ricerca del padre e la rivisitazione dei luoghi e dei gesti dell'infanzia, si trasformano in un sofferto pellegrinaggio interiore.

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 stromatalite.In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle - and also by herself, in her award-winning novel Alias Grace. In Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.

"Bringing together Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood''s speculative fiction trilogy points toward the ultimate endurance of community, and love.Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, newly fortified against man and giant pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasi-human species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. Their reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is recovering from a debilitating fever, so it''s left to Toby to preach the Craker theology, with Crake as Creator. She must also deal with cultural misunderstandings, terrible coffee, and her jealousy over her lover, Zeb. "

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think "Alias Grace." Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, "Moral Disorder," with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, "Alias Grace." A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband in "Alphinland," the first of three loosely linked stories about the romantic geometries of a group of writers and artists. In "The Freeze-Dried Bridegroom," a man who bids on an auctioned storage space has a surprise. In "Lusus Naturae," a woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. In "Torching the Dusties," 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. And in "Stone Mattress," a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.