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Una giovane donna ritorna dopo molti anni alla casa isolata dove ha passato infanzia e adolescenza, allarmata dalla notizia dell'improvvisa sparizione del padre. La casa si trova su un'isola deserta, al centro di un grande lago del Quebec: la porta e aperta, la casa e vuota, in una stanza ci sono fogli pieni di indecifrabili disegni. Per i tre amici che accompagnano la ragazza, la gita sull'isola ha il sapore di un'avventura turistica. Ma per lei la ricerca del padre e la rivisitazione dei luoghi e dei gesti dell'infanzia, si trasformano in un sofferto pellegrinaggio interiore.

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.

"Bringing together Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood''s speculative fiction trilogy points toward the ultimate endurance of community, and love.Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, newly fortified against man and giant pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasi-human species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. Their reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is recovering from a debilitating fever, so it''s left to Toby to preach the Craker theology, with Crake as Creator. She must also deal with cultural misunderstandings, terrible coffee, and her jealousy over her lover, Zeb. "

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think "Alias Grace." Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, "Moral Disorder," with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, "Alias Grace." A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband in "Alphinland," the first of three loosely linked stories about the romantic geometries of a group of writers and artists. In "The Freeze-Dried Bridegroom," a man who bids on an auctioned storage space has a surprise. In "Lusus Naturae," a woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. In "Torching the Dusties," 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. And in "Stone Mattress," a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.

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.

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 ...