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Peripècies fantàstiques de dos nens a qui agrada estar-se dalt d'un arbre.

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.

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.

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.

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, más conocida como novelista que como poeta, ha publicado más de una veintena de poemarios por los que está considerada una de los poetas mayores de la literatura anglosajona actual. La puerta, su obra poetica mas reciente, es un apasio- nante recorrido por sus vivencias personales, desde la infancia hasta la madurez. Esta version en castellano se debe a Pilar Somacarrera Iñigo, profesora de la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid y especialista en la obra de Margaret Atwood. Margaret Atwood recibio el Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras 2008.

Una artista canadiense, divorciada y sumida en una profunda crisis de identidad, regresa con su novio, Joe, a la cabaña familiar, en un lago al norte de Quebec. Les acompañan una pareja de amigos, David y Anna, que tratan de escapar del bullicio urbano buscando el sosiego de la naturaleza salvaje. Pero para la narradora el viaje tiene otro objetivo: encontrar a su padre, un botanico taciturno y solitario desde que enviudo. Trabaja para una papelera y ha desaparecido misteriosamente. Los siete dias de convivencia en la cabaña, intentando hallar al padre, le descubriran el trasfondo de sus acompañantes. Los problemas que afloran y los recuerdos que le evocan aquellos parajes, la pondran en situacion de hacer balance de su infancia y de su vida afectiva, experimentando un resurgir, con nueva intensidad, de sus obsesiones y deseos mas profundos. Una naturaleza virgen, vasta e indomita, y los apuntes plagados de simbolos de su padre, seran la llave que le abra el camino a enfrentarse con su autentico ser y a aceptar, finalmente, el aislamiento y la soledad. Novela de intriga, novela psicologica, Resurgir es una brillante aproximacion de Margaret Atwood a los problemas de la convivencia en la vida cotidiana, teniendo por eje, como en otras de sus obras, a la mujer. Una inmersion en la psicologia femenina y en sus reacciones frente al mundo, la naturaleza, la familia y el matrimonio, la madurez y los cambios de roles y mentalidad. Una novela que nos descubre en su prosa la soledad (continua...)

Margaret Atwood, aunque más conocida como novelista que como poeta, ha publicado más de una veintena de poemarios por los que está considerada una de los voces mayores de la poesía anglosajona actual. En Historias reales, uno de sus titulos mas emblematicos, la palabra poetica de Atwood se centra en temas recurrentes de su obra (el amor, la naturaleza, el rechazo a la violencia, la amistad), tratados con lucidez e ironia. La presente edicion de este poemario (publicado por primera vez en castellano) va acompañada, a modo de prologo, de un celebre y breve ensayo de la autora titulado Bajo el pulgar: como me converti en poeta, un texto salpicado de hilarantes anecdotas autobiograficas, que nos ilumina sobre los fundamentos de la poesia y sobre la escritura de la propia Atwood. Historias reales reune una serie de poemas que hablan al sentimiento del lector, emocionan y son expresion de nuestras propias vivencias. Poesia apta a la comprension de todo tipo de lectores. Margaret Atwood recibio el Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras 2008.

Atwood triumphs with these dazzling, personal stories in her first collection since "Wilderness Tips," In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences -- the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death. With settings ranging from Toronto, northern Quebec, and rural Ontario, the stories begin in the present, as a couple no longer young situate themselves in a larger world no longer safe. Then the narrative goes back in time to the forties and moves chronologically forward toward the present. In ""The Art of Cooking and Serving,"" the twelve-year-old narrator does her best to accommodate the arrival of a baby sister. After she boldly declares her independence, we follow the narrator into young adulthood and then through a complex relationship. In "The Entities," the story of two women haunted by the past unfolds. The magnificent last two stories reveal the heartbreaking old age of parents but circle back again to childhood, to complete the cycle. 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. This is vintage Atwood, writing at the height of her powers.

Debt is like air - something we take for granted and never think about until things go wrong. This book examines the metaphor of debt and the role it takes in our lives. It is about debt as a very old, central motif in religion and literature and in the structuring of human societies. It also looks at the language of debt in the "Old Testament". La deuda es como el aire: la damos por hecho, y nunca pensamos en ella hasta que las cosas van mal Esta obra analiza la metafora de la deuda, y el papel que desempeña en nuestras vidas La deuda ha sido un motivo muy antiguo y de importancia capital en la religion y en la literatura, asi como en la organizacion de sociedades humanas...

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.

Any vint-i-cinc de la nova era. L'equilibri mediambiental està en risc i els avenços científics han alterat les espècies de manera extravagant: conills fosforescents, lleons barreja de xai, porcs amb

The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball...

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.