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In her 10th novel, Margaret Atwood creates an elderly woman named Iris Griffen, who looks back on her life life of privilege and wealth in Ontario, Canada. Alongside Iris''s story, we read a bizarrely futuristic novel about obsession, written by her sister Laura, who seems to have committed suicide in 1945. The two stories are enhanced by newspaper accounts about these two women and their families over half a century, and by a stunningly unexpected ending.

In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her—freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. "Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." —Margaret Atwood

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 ...

Margaret Atwood's classic novel, THE HANDMAID'S TALE, is about the future. Now, in ORYX AND CRAKE, the future has changed. It's much worse. And we're well on the road to it now. The narrator of Margaret Atwood's riveting new novel is Snowman, self-named though not self-created. As the story begins, he's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. Earlier, Snowman's life was one of comparative privilege. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Was he himself in any way responsible? Why is he now left alone with his bizarre memories - except for the more-than-perfect, green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster? He explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.With breathtaking command of her shocking material and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into a less-than-brave new world, an outlandish yet wholly believable space populated by a cast of characters who will continue to inhabit your dreams long after the last chapter. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers.

In Margaret Atwood's 11th novel, she returns to the sci-fi concerns and social criticism that propelled THE HANDMAID'S TALE. ORYX AND CRAKE follows the fortunes of a man once named Jimmy, now called Snowman: his present-day life as a scavenger in a blasted world alternates with his memories of his past. The eponymous Oryx is an Asian girl he encounters on a website featuring child pornography, and Crake is a brilliantly gifted childhood friend who grows up to be a scientist involved in creating artificial life. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003

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.

Avilion, una mansión familiar símbolo de una época perdida. Un matrimonio movido por la codicia. Un amor clandestino y una pasión irrenunciable. La muerte cruel de la inocencia. El estallido de la guerra.Iris Chase, ya anciana, invoca el pasado con la distancia y el escepticismo de quien no tiene nada que perder. Su mirada lucida e ironica se pasea por los salones poblados de sedas, gasas, plumas de avestruz y cuellos de zorro plateado. Contempla las huelgas, cierres de fabricas y el idealismo de los jovenes comunistas; los viajes en lujosos transatlanticos y los encuentros en sordidas pensiones. Y al recordar arranca mascaras y busca, sobre todo, justicia, desvelar la verdad y asi encontrar el amor y el perdon.'Una cautivadora novela sobre la avaricia, el amor y la venganza'.BooklistPremio Booker 2000

In Margaret Atwood's 11th novel, she returns to the sci-fi concerns and social criticism that propelled THE HANDMAID'S TALE. ORYX AND CRAKE follows the fortunes of a man once named Jimmy, now called Snowman: his present-day life as a scavenger in a blasted world alternates with his memories of his past. The eponymous Oryx is an Asian girl he encounters on a website featuring child pornography, and Crake is a brilliantly gifted childhood friend who grows up to be a scientist involved in creating artificial life. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

Le roman de la lutte âpre que se livrent les femmes entre elles, de leurs projections et de leurs fantasmes. Entre rêve et réalité, entre fascination et vengeance, c''est un conte de fées moderne et

 En el tsunami que arrasó las costas del océano índico el 26 de diciembre de 2004, miles de personas perdieron todo lo que tenían: sus casas, sus trabajos, sus seres queridos, la vida...Casi medio a

In Margaret Atwood''s 11th novel, she returns to the sci-fi concerns and social criticism that propelled THE HANDMAID''S TALE. ORYX AND CRAKE follows the fortunes of a man once named Jimmy, now called Snowman: his present-day life as a scavenger in a blasted world alternates with his memories of his past. The eponymous Oryx is an Asian girl he encounters on a website featuring child pornography, and Crake is a brilliantly gifted childhood friend who grows up to be a scientist involved in creating artificial life. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.