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Si Margaret Atwood cautiva al mundo con sus novelas, como ensayista sorprende aún más. Los textos de este libro son entusiastas, polifacéticos y eruditos. Aquí Atwood habla de su generación, de Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ursula Le Guin e Italo Calvino. Piensa lucidamente en literatura y politica. Reflexiona en torno a los momentos historicos que le toco vivir, de sus viajes, su formacion como escritora y, sobre todo, de sus lecturas e influencias. ¿Que libro leyo, cuando y donde, mientras escribia El cuento de la criada? Esta es una autobiografia atravesada por los libros, un tesoro de una de las escritoras mas importantes de nuestros tiempos.

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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.A sinister, wickedly funny novel about a near-future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free, The Heart Goes Last is Margaret Atwood at her heart-stopping best.

What does it mean to live happily ever after? At dinner parties and over coffee, Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily - it's a happy story, one they both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story, the answer to a question their friends never ask: what happened next? Rabih and Kirsten find each other, fall in love, get married. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning. From the first thrill of lust, to the joys and fears of real commitment, to the deep problems that surface slowly over two shared lifetimes, this is the story of a marriage. It is the story of modern relationships and how to survive them. Playful, wise and profoundly moving, The Course of Love is a delightful return to the novel by Alain de Botton, twenty years after his debut Essays in Love.

Les meilleurs récits dystopiques sont universels et intemporels. [...] La Servante écarlate éclaire d'une lumière terrifiante l'Amérique contemporaine. " Télérama.Devant la chute drastique de la féco

Tras un golpe de Estado, os Estados Unidos de América convértense na República de Galaad, un réxime teocrático cristián no que as mulleres fértiles que os seus mandatarios consideran indignas de exercer como nais son condenadas a servir como criadas. Pero os servizos que deben prestar non son domesticos, senon reprodutivos: a sua funcion e enxendrar os fillos das mulleres esteriles das elites do rexime.

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 in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, ecause in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own. 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. This groundbreaking new graphic novel edition, adapted and featuring arresting artwork by Renée Nault, is destined to become a classic in its own right.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, comes this historical fiction graphic novel tracing the Golden Age of Canadian comic books. Collects War Bears issues #1-3. Oursonette, a fictional Nazi-fighting superheroine, is created at the peak of World War II by comic book creator Al Zurakowski who dreams of making it big in the early world of comics publishing. A story that follows the early days of comics in Toronto, a brutal war that greatly strains Al personally and professionally, and how the rise of post-war American comics puts an end to his dreams. Internationally and New York Times best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Ken Steacy collaborate for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events!

Provokant. Erschreckend. Prophetisch.Die provozierende Vision eines totalitaren Staats: Nach einer atomaren Verseuchung ist ein groer Teil der weiblichen Bevolkerung unfruchtbar. Die Frauen werden entmundigt und in drei Gruppen eingeteilt: Ehefrauen von Fuhrungskraften, Dienerinnen und Magde. Letztere werden zur Fortpflanzung rekrutiert und sollen fur unfruchtbare Ehefrauen Kinder empfangen. Auch die Magd Desfred wird Opfer dieses entwurdigenden Programms. Doch sie besitzt etwas, was ihr alle Machthaber, Wachter und Spione nicht nehmen konnen, namlich ihre Hoffnung auf ein Entkommen, auf Liebe, auf Leben ...

In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her—freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. "Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." —Margaret Atwood

Cuando apareció por primera vez en 1971, Poemas políticos de Margaret Atwood sorprendió a los lectores con su danza vital de la mujer y el hombre. Todavía hoy sorprende, y es tan iconoclasta como siempre.Estos poemas ocupan a la vez lo intimo, lo politico y lo mitico. Aqui Atwood nos hace darnos cuenta de que podemos pensar que nuestras propias dicotomias personales son unicas, pero en realidad son multiples, universales. Claro, directo, ironico e implacable: los poderes poeticos de Atwood se perfeccionan a la perfeccion en este trabajo seminal de su carrera temprana.

Devant la chute drastique de la fécondité, la république de Gilead, récemment fondée par des fanatiques religieux, a réduit au rang d'esclaves sexuelles les quelques femmes encore fertiles. Vêtue de

Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale explores a broad range of issues relating to power, gender, and religious politics. Multiple Golden Globe award-winner Claire Danes (Romeo and Juliet, The Hours) gives a stirring performance of this classic in speculative fiction, one of the most powerful and widely read novels of our time. After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred, now a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Despite the danger, Offred learns to navigate the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules in hopes of ending this oppression.