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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.

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.