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Shakespeare''s play of magic and illusion reimagined by one of the world''s great literary innovators.Its got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now hes staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds.Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge.After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. Its magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?Margaret Atwoods novel take on Shakespeares play of enchantment, revenge and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own.

Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as"The Handmaid's Tale"and as richly imagined as"The Blind Assassin." Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in . . . for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes. At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled. "From the Hardcover edition.""

Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends, Tony,Charis, and Roz. All three "have lost men, spirit, money, and time to their old college acquaintance, Zenia. At various times, and in various emotional disguises, Zenia has insinuated her way into their lives and practically demolished them. To Tony, who almost lost her husband and jeopardized her academic career, Zenia is 'a lurking enemy commando.' To Roz, who did lose her husband and almost her magazine, Zenia is 'a cold and treacherous bitch.' To Charis, who lost a boyfriend, quarts of vegetable juice and some pet chickens, Zenia is a kind of zombie, maybe 'soulless'" (Lorrie Moore, New York Times Book Review). In love and war, illusion and deceit, Zenia's subterranean malevolence takes us deep into her enemies' pasts.

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.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleA provocative blend of literary mystery, psychological thriller, and spiritual journey, Surfacing is the story of an artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. 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 Atwoods haunting masterpiece is permeated with suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose.

Double évenement : la collection " Pavillons " accueille pour la première fois de la poésie, celle de la grande dame des lettres canadienne Margaret Atwood, qui n'avait pas publié de poésie depuis di

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

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 ...

Freden neskamea da Gileadeko Errepublikan. Komandantearen eta haren emaztearen etxetik egunean behin ateratzen da elikagaiak erostera, errotuluetan hitzak ez baizik eta irudiak dituzten saltokietara, emakumeek debekaturik baitute irakurtzea. Buruz gora etzaten da hilean behin eta otoitz egingo du Komandanteak haurdun utz dezan, jaiotze tasak beherantz egin zuenetik Freden eta gainerako neskameak beren obarioen emankortasunaren arabera balioesten baitira. Hori guztia isilik eta burumakur beteko du, baldin eta Kolonietan edo Horman amaitu nahi ez badu. Jokamoldea, janzkera eta sexu jarduna ez bezala, desira nekez da gobernatzen, ordea, eta Fredenek lehengo bizitza gogoratuko du: bere senar Lukerekin amodioa egiten zuenekoa; alabarekin jostatzen zenekoa; ofizio bat, beraren dirua eta ezagutzarako sarbidea zituenekoa. Orain, akabo guztia. Jainkoak eta Gobernuak bat egiten dute distopia aztoragarri honetan, eta erregimen ahalguztidun baten itxura hartzen. Politikaren eta sexuaren arteko lotura ilunenetako batzuei argi emanez, mehatxu ezkutu bat agerrarazten du: gizarte osoa azpiratzeko lehen urratsa emakumeak mendean hartzea da. Antizipazio izugarriz, 80ko hamarkadan kaleratu zuen Margaret Atwoodek eleberria, bere prosak ohi duen sarkasmo sotil eta ideien argitasuna lagun. Urteek indartu baizik ez dute egiten istorio lazgarri hau.

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

More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sinters and their secrets. Set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history, The Blind Assassin is an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal.

Luis Marigómez nació en Nava de la Asunción (Segovia) en 1957. Vive en Valladolid. Ha publicado las novelas Vísperas (1999); Rosa (2002); A través (2007) y el libro de relatos Ramo (2001) por el que recibiño el premio de narrativa Miguel Delibes. Es tambien responsable del prologo y la traduccion del libro de poemas Luna nueva, de Margaret Atwood (Icaria, 2000).

"Lo personal es lo político" afirmaba un famoso slogan feminista de los años setenta. Juegos de poder glosa poéticamente esta declaración. Atwood es escritora política en el sentido más amplio de la palabra, y desde sus comienzos ha mostrado gran interés por analizar la dialéctica del poder. Miembro de Amnistía Internacional y fundadora del Sindicato de Escritores de Canadá, la política, entendida como la manera en que las personas se relacionan con una estructura de poder, está presente en su obra tanto novelística como poética. Aunque es una magnífica poeta, Atwood es más conocida por sus novelas, seis de las cuales han sido traducidas al castellano. Juegos de poder es la tercera de sus colecciones que se traduce a nuestro idioma. El poemario tuvo una excelente acogida en los círculos feministas, pero constituye algo más que un documento sobre la liberación de la mujer. En este libro, la desaparición de los límites entre lo público y lo privado, hace de las relaciones entre los sexos un microcosmos de la realidad política del imperialismo. Por otra parte, la relación entre el "yo" y el "tu", sobre la que los poemas vuelven una y otra vez, es el tema eterno de la poesía amorosa tradicional. Casi treinta años después de su publicación, Juegos de poder sigue siendo una secuencia lírica que rompe moldes.

En estos breves divertimentos literarios, Atwood ironiza sobre las estructuras poéticas y míticas de nuestro tiempo y disecciona el comportamiento humano, privado o público, con un humor implacable. Pueblan la pagina personajes de Shakespeare, populares, de novelas rosa, de accion, de misterio; tramas antiguas, contextos nuevos, temas candentes. Pero bajo su inocua apariencia de comedia, bajo la pagina, se esconde la inquietante relacion de este juego con nuestra realidad cotidiana.

En El cuento de la criada, Margaret Atwood, autora canadiense galardonada con el Booker Prize y otros importantes premios literarios, imagina una dictadura habitada por mujeres estériles y donde sólo una minoria, las criadas, estan destinada