Margaret Atwood Book order (chronological)

Als Tochter von Wissenschaftler:innen verbrachte Atwood den Großteil ihrer Kindheit in der kanadischen Wildnis – der Start in ein Ausnahme-Leben. Es folgen die Jahre, in denen sie erst Teil der literarischen Bohème und dann zu jener Autorin wurde, deren legendärer »Report der Magd« (geschrieben im Berlin der 1980er Jahre) unsere Welt bis heute prägen. Atwood erzählt, wie es weiterging, lässt uns teilhaben an ihren Freundschaften, am Leben mit ihrem Mann Graeme. Das Ergebnis ist ein farbenfrohes, hochamüsantes Buch voller überlebensgroßer Figuren: Dichter, Bären, Hollywood-Schaupieler ... Ein Einblick in ihr Schreiben, in die Verbindungen zwischen realem Leben und Kunst und in die Funktionsweise eines der kreativsten Köpfe unserer Zeit.

Wofür hat man denn Freundinnen? Eine Geschichte über weibliche Solidarität von der Autorin von Der Report der Magd Ein schwüler Tag in Toronto bei Crackern und reichlich Gin Tonic. Drei reizende alte Damen wissen, dass ihnen nicht viel Zeit bleibt, eine Freundin zu rächen. Deren erfolgreiche Romane wurden von einer neidischen Männer-Clique einst derart verrissen, dass sie unter einer Schreibblockade litt. Die Übeltäter sollen nun alle sterben – aber wie ermordet man den ersten so, dass die anderen ahnen, bald der Nächste zu sein? Dass sie es mit der Angst bekommen, während einer nach dem anderen stirbt? Die Polizei aber ahnungslos bleibt, wer hinter dieser Mordserie steckt? – Margaret Atwood in Hochform!

Margaret Atwood's collection showcases her evolution as a poet over six decades, featuring vital poems that capture the essence of living in a complex world. The work includes a diverse range of characters, from mythological figures to everyday people, each exploring profound themes of life, death, and the human experience. Atwood's unique blend of reality and fantasy invites readers to reflect on their own joys, sorrows, desires, and fears, solidifying her status as a pivotal figure in contemporary literature.

Tzv. společný román čili soubor povídek vymysleli a jako editoři sestavili Margaret Atwood a Douglas Preston. Koncept spočívá ve hře pro celou skupinu autorů přispívajících svým dílem do jednoho daného rámce, a tím je pandemie covidu v New Yorku. Kdo stihl před karanténou odjet z New Yorku na venkov, udělal to. Statisíce lidí však v New Yorku zůstaly, například obyvatelé jednoho notně omšelého činžáku. Skoro nikam se nesmí, ale střecha je pěkně plochá a dá se tam pohodlně posedět. Někdo přinese křeslo, někdo basu piv a lidé se tam začínají scházet, bez mobilů, zato každý se svým příběhem. Soused pozná souseda a hned se pandemie covidu-19 překonává o něco lépe. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.

Set in a New York apartment building, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of neighbours has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Emma Donoghue and Celeste Ng. One week into lockdown, the tenants of a run-down apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now - become real neighbours. A dazzling, heartwarming and ultimately surprising narrative, Fourteen Days is an ode to the power of storytelling and human connection. Includes writing from: Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Jennine Capo Crucet, Pat Cummings, Joseph Cassara, Angie Cruz, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Maria Hinojosa, Mira Jacob, Erica Jong, CJ Lyons, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Mary Pope Osborne, Doug Preston, Alice Randall, Caroline Randall, Ishmael Reed, Roxana Robinson, Nelly Rosario, James Shapiro, Hampton Sides, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rachel Vail, Weike Wang, DeShawn Charles Winslow, Meg Wolitzer

In collaboration with the Financial Times: powerful, urgent reflections on the value of democracy from eleven women writers and thought-leaders

Houghton Mifflin now proudly publishes Selected Poems II, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of the last ten years. Underlying oppression and injustice, we hear the music of compassion and fellowship.

A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. These 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, to what to do with inherited relics such as World War II parade swords. They feature beloved cats, a confused snail, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, philosopher-astronomer-mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, a cabal of elderly female academics, and an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales. At the heart of the collection is 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 glorious range of Atwood's creativity and humanity is on full beam in these tales, which by turns delight, illuminate and quietly devastate.

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers. 'Wonderful ... all killer, no filler' Red Magazine 'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist 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 their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for our time.

Scharfsinnig, witzig und hochaktuell: Antworten auf die »brennenden Fragen« unserer Zeit In dieser lustigen, gelehrten, unendlich neugierigen und gespenstisch weitsichtigen Essaysammlung fragte die Kultur-Ikone Margaret Atwood: - Warum erzählen Menschen aller Kulturen überall Geschichten? - Wieviel kann man von sich presigeben, ohne zu verschwinden? - Wie können wir auf unserem Planeten leben? - Stimmt das? Und ist das gerecht? - Was haben Zombies mit Autoritarismus zu tun? In über fünfzig Texten richtet Atwood ihren erstaunlichen Intellekt und frechen Humor wie einen Scheinwerfer auf unsere Welt und berichtet uns dann, was sie dabei entdeckt. Die Achterbahn-Zeitspanne, in der diese Essays entstanden bescherten uns das Ende des Endes der Geschichte, eine Finanzkrise, den Aufstieg Donald Trumps und eine Pandemie. Ob zu Schulden oder zur Tech-Welt, zur Kilimakrise oder zur Freiheit, von der Frage, wann man der jüngeren Generation seine Weisheit überhelfen soll (nur wenn man gefragt wird) zur Frage was Granola eigentlich ist - es gibt niemand der bessere Fragen stellt zu den zahllosen so unterschiedlichen Fragen unseres menschlichen Universums. »Brilliant und witzig« Joan Didion »Sie nimmt sich unsere Zeiten vor und macht uns klüger dafür .« Ali Smith »In der gesamten lesenden Welt werden die Geschichtsbücher auf der nächsten leeren Seite aufgeschlagen und obendrüber steht Atwoods Name.« Anne Enright, ›Guardian‹

A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood’s characteristic insight, wit and intellect. The two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory on a perfect summer evening; “Impatient Griselda” explores alienation and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic; and “My Evil Mother” touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. At the heart of the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long life of uncommon love—and what comes after. Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection Stone Mattress, Atwood showcases both her creativity and her humanity in these remarkable tales which by turns delight, illuminate, and quietly devastate.

From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as- 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 the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer- only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.

»Lasst uns alle hoffen.« - Die Gedichte eines Lebens Mit »Dearly« veröffentlicht Margaret Atwood nach zehn Jahren erstmals wieder einen Lyrikband. Es geht darin um all das, womit sie sich, berühmtermaßen, auseinandersetzt: ob hinreißend genaue Naturbeschreibungen oder witzige Begegnungen mit Außerirdischen, ob drängende politische Fragen oder Mythen und Legenden. Klug, dabei oft verspielt sprechen die Gedichte von Abwesenheit, Altern und Rückschau, aber auch von Neubeginn und Glück. »Dearly« ist Atwood pur, voller Einsichten, Empathie und Humor. »Lyrik handelt vom Kern der menschlichen Existenz: Leben, Tode, Erneuerung, Wandel; in aller Fairness und Unfairness, in aller Ungerechtigkeit und – manchmal – Gerechtigkeit.« Margaret Atwood Ins Deutsche übertragen von Büchner-Preisträger Jan Wagner

Atwood jest mistrzynią formy i wielowymiarowości. Dała się poznać jako autorka poezji, polemik politycznych, scenariuszy filmowych, a nade wszystko zróżnicowanej i wyrafinowanej prozy: od powieści, przez teksty science fiction, sagi historyczne po powieści graficzne, teksty krytycznoliterackie i filmowe. Jedno, czego nie napisała, to autobiografia. I to właśnie zbiór esejów Ruchome cele możemy nazwać przewrotną i symboliczną autobiografią. Dla wytrawnych czytelników Atwood ta książka będzie wspaniałą zagadką intelektualną. Autorka daje tu niebywały popis erudycji, wszechstronności i jednocześnie skłonności do literackich gier, dystansu i ironii. A wszystko jest inkrustowane historiami z jej pisarskiej drogi. „Nie jestem naukowczynią ani historyczką, lecz pisarką i poetką, a tacy ludzie jak ja słyną z tego, ze do lektury podchodzą subiektywnie” – pisze Margaret Atwood i tym samym przekazuje czytelnikom klucz do swojej twórczej wyobraźni. Trudno lepiej poznać autora niż przez pryzmat lektur – sama bowiem zaznacza, że pisanie bierze się z czytania.

Erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung - Margaret Atwoods fundierte, hochamüsante Literaturgeschichte Kanadas 1972 erschien »Survival« erstmals und sorgte für Stürme der Begeisterung wie der Empörung. Seitdem wird es gelesen, gelehrt, immer wieder aufgelegt - und nun, fast 50 Jahre danach, endlich auch ins Deutsche übersetzt. Margaret Atwood fragt darin: Womit hat unsere Literatur sich im Wesentlichen beschäftigt? Ihre provokante Antwort erläutert sie in zwölf geistreichen, leidenschaftlichen Kapiteln. Als eine der Ersten betont sie die Bedeutung der Geschichten der First Nations, liest die kanadischen »Klassiker« neu und formte so die Eigenwahrnehmung ihrer Landsleute. Für die Neuausgaben je um ein Vorwort ergänzt, gilt Margaret Atwoods visionärer Wurf nach wie vor als das wohl interessanteste und prägendste Buch über die kanadische Literatur.

Jako dwudziestoletnia poetka, usłyszałam od starszego poety, mężczyzny, że jako poetka nigdy niczego nie osiągnę, jeśli nie będę wcześniej kierowcą ciężarówki, a tym samym nie przekonam się na własnej skórze, jak wygląda życie prawdziwych ludzi. Nie uważam, by między życiem a sztuką zachodziły jakiekolwiek korelacje przyczynowo-skutkowe sprawdzające się w każdych warunkach, a już na pewno nie takie, które objaśniają jakość dzieła; by działały mechaniczne recepty typu „połóż surowiec na fotel kierowcy ciężarówki, a po pewnym czasie otwórz drzwi od strony pasażera i wyjmij znakomitego artystę wysokiej klasy”. Błyskotliwe, dowcipne i bardzo osobiste teksty, które pierwotnie miały formę wykładów, jakie autorka wygłosiła na uniwersytecie w Cambridge w 2000 roku. Znajdziemy tu m.in. „Dłoń jekyllową i dłoń hyde’ową”, czyli tekst o dwoistości pisarza, refleksje o pisaniu i finansach, o mitologiach dotyczących pisarza i pisarki, o pisarskich powinnościach, o tym, dla kogo pisarz pisze i jak pisanie ma się do uprawiania innych dziedzin sztuki, a także, jaki to wszystko ma związek ze śmiercią. Anegdoty, cytaty, literackie odniesienia – mnóstwo dobra dla każdego, kto kocha Atwood i czytanie.

Die Drei drolligen Dramen kitzeln die Lachmuskeln. Sie führen in die Welt der aufregenden Abenteuer und der Alliteration, der gleichen Anfangslaute. Die drei Geschichten für kleine und große Kinder ab 7 Jahren wollen laut vorgelesen oder selbst laut gelesen werden. Rüpel Ramsay und die randalierenden Radieschen Ramsay nimmt vor seiner raubeinigen Restfamilie – Ron, Rollo und Ruby – Reißaus. Bedauernswerter Bob und Düstere Dorinda Von Baby Bob und der düsteren Dorinda, deren dünnlicher Dad und dickliche Mum bei einem Dammbruch in Dschibuti verloren gegangen sind … Die wandernde Wanda und Witwe Wischwaschs Wunder-Wäscherei Die wandernde Wanda wird in einen Weidenkorb gezwängt und landet mit drei weiteren Waisen in der Wunder-Waschküche von Witwe Wischwasch …

Nach dem Lyrik-Sammelband Die Füchsin soll dieses Buch Margaret Atwoods Erzählungen ins rechte Licht rücken. Ohne Zweifel sind ihre Stories ein wesentlicher Teil ihres Werks, ihr Sinn für knappe Pointen und ironische Zuspitzungen machen sie zu einer Meisterin der kurzen Form. Dies ist der Versuch, einen großen Bogen über Margaret Atwoods diesbezügliches Schaffen zu spannen. Eine exklusiv für diese Sammlung geschriebene Geschichte und ein knappes Dutzend noch nie auf Deutsch erschienener Stories verleihen diesem Projekt zusätzliche Bedeutung.

When Felix is deposed as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival by his devious assistant and longtime enemy, his production of The Tempest is canceled and he is heartbroken. Reduced to a life of exile in rural southern Ontario—accompanied only by his fantasy daughter, Miranda, who died twelve years ago—Felix devises a plan for retribution. Eventually he takes a job teaching Literacy Through Theatre to the prisoners at the nearby Burgess Correctional Institution, and is making a modest success of it when an auspicious star places his enemies within his reach. With the help of their own interpretations, digital effects, and the talents of a professional actress and choreographer, the Burgess Correctional Players prepare to video their Tempest. Not surprisingly, they view Caliban as the character with whom they have the most in common. However, Felix has another twist in mind, and his enemies are about to find themselves taking part in an interactive and illusion-ridden version of The Tempest that will change their lives forever. But how will Felix deal with his invisible Miranda’s decision to take a part in the play?

La presenza di un gatto in famiglia non è importante solo per il benefico influsso di un pezzetto di natura selvaggia (o quasi) in casa, per contrastare lo stress o far crescere i bambini in modo più equilibrato. Questo libro mostra i benefici del gatto su autostima e self-control, sullo sviluppo della creatività, dell'attenzione all'ambiente e agli altri "umani", e addirittura sull'accettazione delle gerarchie famigliari. Il volume contiene un contributo di Igor Sibaldi sul "gatto-maestro" dal punto di vista dell'antropologia e della teologia.

Margaret Atwoods Gedichte bieten einen tiefen Einblick in ihr Leben und ihre Persönlichkeit. Diese zweisprachige Auswahl umfasst Werke aus über zwanzig Lyrikbänden und zeigt die leidenschaftliche Kanadierin, Feministin und Umwelt-Aktivistin sowie ihre Rolle als Reisende, Naturliebhaberin, Mutter und Geliebte.

A box set of Margaret Atwood's bestselling companioned novels, The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.In The Handmaid's Tale, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War and the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead's Commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. In The Testaments, set more than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, The Republic of Gilead maintains its repressive grip on power, but it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women come together, with potentially explosive results. This beautifully designed slipcase will make the perfect holiday and perennial gift.

The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist, poet -- and cultural phenomenon Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Margaret Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognisable and celebrated themes, but distilled -- from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens, from pressing political issues to myth and legend. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment. Dearly is a pure Atwood delight, and long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight, empathy and humour.

Al final de Nueve cuentos malvados, Margaret Atwood advierte que el término «cuento» puede alejar una narración breve del realismo social, acercándola al ámbito de los relatos populares y de hadas. En esta colección, Atwood explora nueve historias donde vampiros, seres poseídos y fantasmas se entrelazan con situaciones cotidianas. Una escritora de literatura fantástica, recientemente viuda, enfrenta una tormentosa noche guiada por la voz de su difunto esposo. Una anciana con el síndrome de Charles Bonnet imagina criaturas liliputienses, mientras un grupo populista asalta una residencia de ancianos. Una mujer con malformación congénita es confundida con un vampiro, y un estromatolito de mil novecientos millones de años busca venganza por un antiguo delito. A través de estos relatos, Atwood presenta las facetas más grotescas y malvadas del ser humano, utilizando su característico humor oscuro para reflexionar sobre la vejez y la muerte. Estos cuentos son tanto estremecedores como divertidos, y confirman a la autora canadiense como una aguda observadora de nuestros instintos más oscuros. Su mirada cáustica y humana se convierte en un faro que ilumina en tiempos de incertidumbre.

The stunning graphic novel adaptation • A must-read and collector’s item for fans of “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. Provocative, startling, prophetic, The Handmaid’s Tale has long been a global phenomenon. With this beautiful graphic novel adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s modern classic, beautifully realized by artist Renée Nault, the terrifying reality of Gilead has been brought to vivid life like never before.

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.

Margaret Atwood spricht mit dem Journalisten Caspar Shaller über ihre Gedichte und Romane, über Totalitarismus und die Post-Truth-Ära, über Feminismus, die #MeToo-Debatte und über Beyoncé. Die unfreiwillige Prophetin der ökologischen Katastrophe und des wiedererstarkenden Faschismus erzählt auch davon, wie die rot-weißen Roben der Figuren aus ihrem dystopischen Roman Der Report der Magd zu einem Meme der Anti-Trump-Bewegung wurden und wie sie selbst sich heute politisch engagiert. Hellwach, kämpferisch und
mit tiefer Menschenkenntnis beweist Atwood, dass sie auch mit achtzig Jahren nichts
an intellektueller Brillanz und politischem Gespür eingebüßt hat – ebenso wenig wie an Humor.

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?

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, comes the complete collection of the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel from Margaret Atwood! Internationally best-selling and respected novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events! A genetic engineer caught in the middle of a chemical accident all of a sudden finds himself with superhuman abilities. With these new powers he takes on the identity of Angel Catbird and gets caught in the middle of a war between animal/human hybrids. What follows is a humorous, action-driven, educational, and pulp- inspired superhero adventure--with a lot of cat puns. Includes previously unpublished art by Margaret Atwood. Collects Angel Catbird volumes 1-3

Can we ever be wholly free? 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…

When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family. A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod's life, from babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man?

Winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2017), 10 Best Books by NYT Book Review, The Power by Naomi Alderman. This book tells the story of a time when teenage girls receive a strong power that allows them to inflict horrible pain and even death... Korean edition translated by Jeong Ji Hyeon.

The cat-centric adventure continues, in the all-ages follow-up to best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood's debut graphic novel. Genetic engineer Strig Feleedus, also known as Angel Catbird, and his band of half-cats head to Castle Catula to seek allies as the war between cats and rats escalates. Margaret Atwood, the respected, worldwide best-selling novelist, and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas continue their action-packed adventure!

It's all-out war in the madcap conclusion to Angel Catbird's superhero saga. The evil Rat army is aiming for world domination, and only a ragtag gang of half-cats stands in their way. Internationally best-selling novelist and animal lover Margaret Atwood pens a conclusion to the dramatic, hilarious, and heartwarming trilogy.

Lauded novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate on one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of the year.On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by his own experiment and merges with the DNA of a cat and an owl. What follows is a humorous, action-driven, pulp-inspired superhero adventure - with a lot of cat puns.

»Verna hatte anfänglich nicht vorgehabt, jemanden zu töten.« Mit diesem fulminanten ersten Satz beginnt die titelgebende Erzählung und sofort befindet man sich im Atwood-Kosmos, sofort wird man hineingezogen in eine Geschichte, die hintergründig, spannend und unglaublich komisch zugleich ist. Verna begibt sich auf eine Arktisreise, um endlich alles hinter sich zu lassen, um abzuschalten. Doch statt Ruhe, Weite, Eis und Schnee trifft sie unerwartet auf den Mann, der ihr Leben für immer veränderte, als er sie vor über fünfzig Jahren zum Schultanz lud, die unscheinbare, fleißige Verna Pritchard an der Seite des begehrten Footballstars. Wie Verna nun späte Rache übt, erzählt Atwood so lakonisch und souverän, wie es nur die »Queen der kanadischen Literatur« (Literarische Welt) vermag, erzählt in einer einzigen Geschichte ein ganzes Leben. All ihre stilistische Virtuosität, die Leichtigkeit, den Witz und die Ironie legt Margaret Atwood in diesen Band, ein Glanzstück ihrer Erzählkunst.

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is a non-fiction anthology mixing prose, comics, and illustrated stories on the lives and loves of an amazing cast of female creators. Featuring work by Margaret Atwood (The Heart Goes Last), Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer), Trina Robbins (Wonder Woman), Marguerite Bennett (Marvel's A-Force), Noelle Stevenson (Nimona), Marjorie Liu (Monstress), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), and over fifty more creators. It's a compilation of tales told from both sides of the tables: from the fans who love video games, comics, and sci-fi to those that work behind the scenes: creators and industry insiders.

Treacherously toppled from his post as director of the Makeshiweg Festival on the eve of his production of The Tempest, Felix retreats to a backwoods hovel to lick his wounds and mourn his lost daughter. And also to plot his revenge. After twelve years his chance appears in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will stage his Tempest at last, and snare the traitors who destroyed him. But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall ?

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.

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace 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.

Die gefeierte Schriftstellerin Margaret Atwood lässt in ihren neuen Gedichten ein vielschichtiges Panorama der Welt entstehen, voller Lakonie, Witz und stiller Trauer. »Und wird der Boden/ noch tragen? Und wie/ lange noch?« Margaret Atwoods neuer Gedichtband erkundet in einer klaren, beinahe entblößenden Sprache die Ungewissheiten und Launen der verstreichenden Zeit. Sie widmet sich dem Leben in all seinen Facetten: der Liebe, dem Verlust der Eltern und der Kindheit, der Selbstwahrnehmung des Dichters, dem nahenden Tod. Prägnant und bildreich bewegen sich die Gedichte zwischen lyrischem und ironischem, abwägendem und waghalsigem Ton. Sie brechen ab, schlagen Haken, setzen wieder neu an und weisen schließlich mit prophetischer Bestimmtheit den Weg durch die Tür - hinaus, in die Dunkelheit: "Die Tür schwingt auf:/ O Gott der Scharniere,/ Gott der langen Reisen,/ du hast die Treue gehalten./ Es ist dunkel da drin./ Du vertraust dich der Dunkelheit an./ Du trittst ein./ Die Tür schwingt zu."

Vol. 1: Oryx and Crake: At once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey - with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake - through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—a thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking collection of stories that affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses. “Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In “Lusus Naturae,” a young woman, monstrously transformed by a genetic defect, is mistaken for a vampire. And in the title story, a woman who has killed four husbands discovers an opportunity to exact vengeance on the first man who ever wronged her. Stone Mattress is a collection of unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity.

A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers - a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the God's Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers' reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is hallucinating; Amanda is in shock from a Painballer assault; and Ivory Bill yearns for the provocative Swift Fox, who is flirting with Zeb. Meanwhile, giant Pigoons and malevolent Painballers threaten to attack.Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood's unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world - a moving and dramatic conclusion to the internationally celebrated trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.

Margaret Atwood's fascinating account of her lifelong relationship with science and speculative fiction.

The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and soon all roads are closed. There's a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young religious women forbidden to wear their headscarves. Islamists are poised to win the local elections and Ka is falling in love with the beautiful and radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, he finds himself pursued by terrorism in a city wasting away under the shadow of Europe. In the midst of growing religious and political violence, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act . . . Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury. 'A novel of profound relevance to our present moment' The Times

En France, peu de gens savent que la grande romancière canadienne Margaret Atwood écrit de la poésie. Mieux encore, que cette poésie constitue le terreau dans lequel s’enracine son œuvre romanesque. Dans Le Journal de Susanna Moodie, Margaret Atwood relate la vie d’une pionnière venue d’Angleterre au XIXème siècle. Susanna Moodie n’est pas un personnage de fiction, mais une figure emblématique de la nation et de la littérature canadiennes. Étrangère sans ressources, elle découvre la misère, la solitude, la vie sauvage dans les forêts du grand Nord, aux confins du rêve et de la folie. Si nous publions aujourd’hui ce recueil en France, c’est qu’il aborde des questions qui nous taraudent : la fragilité de la vie, l’identité nationale, la condition de l’immigrant.

In Atwood's poems, Helen of Troy appears as a tabletop dancer and Miss July muses on life as a cheesecake queen. There are also poems dealing with love, with memory, and the fragility of the natural world. An elegiac series on the death of a parent completes this collection.

From the highly acclaimed novelist, comes a new collection of poetry. She is 'the quiet Mata Hari' of poetry - Michael Ondaatje

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden. Is anyone else out there?

Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn’t talk about high finance or managing money; instead, she goes far deeper to explore debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. By looking at how debt has informed our thinking from preliterate times to the present day, from the stories we tell of revenge and sin to the way we order social relationships, Atwood argues that the idea of what we owe may well be built into the human imagination as one of its most dynamic metaphors. Her final lecture addresses the notion of a debt to nature and the need to find new ways of interacting with the natural world before it is too late.

Ein persönliches Werk von Margaret Atwood, das einen geistreichen und bitterbösen Streifzug durch die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele bietet. Es behandelt Themen wie Mord, Vampiren und die Vorlieben von Männern und zeigt die Autorin von einer ganz anderen Seite.

A new collection of dazzling short fiction from Margaret Atwood

Huxley's nightmare vision of the future, first published in 1932.

One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, these highly imaginative, vintage Atwoodian mini-fictions speak on a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision.In pieces ranging in length from a mere paragraph to several pages, Atwood gives a sly pep talk to the ambitious young; writes about the disconcerting experience of looking at old photos of ourselves; gives us Horatio's real views on Hamlet; and examines the boons and banes of orphanhood. Bring Back Mom: An Invocation; explores what life was really like for the "perfect" homemakers of days gone by, and in The Animals Reject Their Names she runs history backward, with surprising results.Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, The Tent is vintage Atwood, enhanced by the author's delightful drawings.

A superb collection from one of our best-loved writers, these interrelated stories brilliantly capture the myriad uncertainties, ambiguities and epiphanies of real life. 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 through the 50s, 60s and 70s to the present day. The stories follow the central character through large cities, suburbs, farms and northern forests, and through the cycle of childhood and adolescence into adulthood.By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, tragic, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwood's celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage.

De tent van Margaret Atwood is een zinnenprikkelende verzameling korte verhalen, afgewisseld door illustraties van de auteur. De verhalen zijn zowel geestig als intelligent, persoonlijk als vooruitziend, en vertellen op hoogst fantasierijke wijze over een breed scala aan onderwerpen. De stukken wisselen in lengte van slechts één pagina tot meerdere pagina's. In de verhalen geeft Atwood een sluwe peptalk aan ambitieuze jongeren. Ze schrijft over de vervreemdende ervaring die we hebben wanneer we oude foto's van onszelf terugzien. Ze laat ons beleven wat Horatio werkelijk van Hamlet dacht en ze onderzoekt wat het waarlijk betekent een wees te zijn. In 'Breng Moeder terug; een bezwering' beschrijft ze hoe het leven echt was voor de huisvrouwen van vroeger en in 'De dieren verwerpen hun naam' gaat ze de geschiedenis in, met verrassende resultaten. De tent is typisch Margaret Atwood: de verhalen in deze bundel zijn controversieel en bezwerend en kunnen keer op keer worden herlezen.

Remis à jour chaque année, de notre mieux... Plein d'adresses souvent introuvables ailleurs. Des conseils inédits et plutôt intéressants. De bons tuyaux testés sur le terrain. Plus de 80 enquêteurs-fureteurs qui parcourent le monde. Des plans avec toutes nos adresses positionnées.

23 июля 1843 года в Канаде произошло кошмарное преступление, до сих пор не дающее покоя психологам и криминалистам. Служанка Грейс Маркс обвинялась в крайне жестоком убийстве своего хозяина и его беременной любовницы-экономки. Грейс была необычайно красива и очень юна - ей не исполнилось еще и 16 лет. Дело осложнялось тем, что она предложила три различные версии убийства, тогда как ее сообщник - лишь две. Но он отправился на виселицу, а ей всю жизнь предстояло провести в тюрьме и сумасшедшем доме - адвокат сумел доказать присяжным, что она слабоумна. Грейс Маркс вышла на свободу 29 лет спустя. Но была ли она поистине безумна? Чей пагубный дух вселился в ее тело? Кто она - злодейка и искусительница, зачинщица преступления и подлинная убийца? Или же невольная жертва, принужденная угрозами к молчанию? Подлинная личность исторической Грейс Маркс остается загадкой, лоскутным одеялом, облаком домыслов и сенсационных спекуляций. В романе "...Она же "Грейс"" лауреат Букеровской премии Маргарет Этвуд предлагает свою версию истории о самой известной канадской преступнице. Но вправе ли она?

First chapters from forthcoming books and unpublished stories or poems from: Margaret Atwood ; Maeve Binchy ; Tracy Chevalier ; Harlan Coben ; Paulo Coelho ; J.M. Coetzee ; Nicholas Evans ; Mark Haddon ; Nick Hornby ; Marian Keyes ; Stephen King ; Alexander McCall Smith ; Ian McEwan ; Vikram Seth ; Joanna Trollope ; Scott Turow.

Rotznase Ramsay lebte in einer heruntergekommenen Rostlaube mit einem stinkenden Rübenkeller und Reetdach. Eine Rampe mit Zinnen bildete den Rand seines Reiches.

Autores de todo el mundo rinden homenaje al “Quijote”. Las reflexiones de grandes intelectuales internacionales sobre el mítico caballero andante.

Collected essays and journalism from the bestselling author of The Blind Assassin and Oryx and Crake. First publication.

Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making.In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope—wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy—is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan War after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumors, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay, simultaneously. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters, and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and—curiously—twelve of her maids.In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged maids, asking: "What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?" In Atwood's dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. With wit and verve, drawing on the story-telling and poetic talent for which she herself is renowned, she gives Penelope new life and reality—and sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.

With breathtaking command of her shocking material and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into a conceivable future of our own world, an outlandish yet wholly believable place left devastated in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster and populated by characters who will continue to inhabit your dreams long after the book is closed

The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945. Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family’s history. Intertwined with Iris’s account are chapters from the scandalous novel that made Laura famous, in which two illicit lovers amuse each other by spinning a tale of a blind killer on a distant planet. These richly layered stories-within-stories gradually illuminate the secrets that have long haunted the Chase family, coming together in a brilliant and astonishing final twist.

Zenia, schön und bösartig, manipuliert ihre Freundinnen und deren Ehemänner. Nach ihrem Tod finden die Freundinnen Erleichterung, doch die Vergangenheit holt sie ein, als Zenia plötzlich zurückkehrt. Margaret Atwood thematisiert den Kampf unter Frauen, in dem Männer nur als Beute erscheinen.

Margaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. Thirty years later it still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple and universal. Clear, direct, wry, unrelenting —Atwood's poetic powers are honed to perfection in this important early work.

Die kanadische Autorin präsentiert nach langer Pause eine neue Gedichtsammlung, die sich mit historischen und mythologischen Themen, der Liebe sowie Meditationen über den Tod des Vaters beschäftigt.

Features pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people or are they? This collection of short stories maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.

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.

Prunella, a proud, prissy princess plans to marry a pinhead prince who will pamper her until a wise old woman's spell puts a purple peanut on the princess's pretty nose.