Margaret Atwood

These beautifully crafted poems–by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender and intimate–come together as Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering of poems to date, “setting foot on the middle ground/between body and word.” Some draw on history, and on myth, both classical and popular. Other, more personal poems concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death–especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent–as they inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous, compassionate, disturbing, this is poetry that emanates from the heart of human experience and seeks balance between the luminous realm of memory and the realities of everyday, between darkness and light, the capacity to perpetrate and the strength to forgive. Morning in the Burned House is infused with breathtaking insight, technical virtuosity, and a clarity of vision that has the force to change the way we look at our lives.

A book of fifty lucid, urgent poems from internationally acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author Margaret Atwood. In The Door, Margaret Atwood investigates the mysterious writing of poetry itself as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. The Door ranges in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and touches on subjects both personal and political. Brave and compassionate, this collection interrogates the certainties that we build our lives on and reminds us once again of Atwood's unique accomplishments as one of the finest and most celebrated writers of our time.

In this brilliant selection of essays--including three new pieces--the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola--and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as... - Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, Oryx & Crake, and Atwood's other beloved works.- 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 more than fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to Atwood's views on the climate crisis, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.

Medrivende ny bog af forfatteren til "Tjenerindens fortælling" indeholder femten fortællinger, som alle dykker helt ned i familiedynamik, ægteskab, savn og hukommelse og – ikke mindst – hvad det betyder at leve et helt liv sammen. Centralt i syv af historierne følges Nell og Tig gennem deres årtier lange ægteskab, både de store øjeblikke og de små, som tilsammen danner et helt liv med usædvanlig kærlighed – og det der kommer bagefter. Den canadiske forfatter Margaret Atwood er en af verdens bedst sælgende forfattere, og med HBO-serien ’The Handmaid's Tale’ fra 2017 fik hendes forfatterskab fornyet international opmærksomhed. Hun er en fabelagtig fortæller og hendes store politiske og miljømæssige engagement skinner tydeligt igennem i hendes bøger.

RECOMENDADO POR JENNA BUSH EN SU CLUB DE LECTURA DEL TODAY SHOW Y EN SU PODCAST READ WITH JENNA Una brillante colecci n de ensayos que abarca desde la deuda p blica hasta la naturaleza de la ciencia ficci n y la crisis clim tica. La galardonada y exitosa autora de El cuento de la criada y Los testamentos ofrece su divertida, erudita, curiosa y asombrosamente clarividente visi n del mundo, desde la deuda y la tecnolog a hasta la crisis clim tica y la libertad, y busca respuestas a cuestiones candentes como... Por qu la gente cuenta historias, sea cual sea su cultura? Cu nto puedes dar de ti sin evaporarte? C mo podemos vivir en nuestro planeta? Qu relaci n hay entre los zombis y el autoritarismo? Una colecci n de ensayos de actualidad con el marchamo indiscutible de la que quiz sea la novelista viva m s famosa y, sin duda, la m s venerable de nuestro tiempo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION- READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY - RECOMMENDED ON THE 'READ WITH JENNA' PODCAST- In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything, from whether or not The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola--and seeks answers to Burning Questions, such as... - Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, Oryx & Crake, and her other beloved works. - 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 more than fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to Atwood's views on the climate crisis, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.

Femten helt nye historier fra en av verdens største forfattere. I «Ryper i solnedgang» gir Atwood oss en gruppe gamle akademikervenninner som drikker drinker på formiddagen og krangler om hvem som faktisk lå med hvem for seksti år siden, en historie om seksualitet og forplantning i forlengelsen av Gilead-universet, og en datter som lurer på om moren er en heks. Her er også elskede katter, en forvirret snegle, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, filosof-matematiker-astronom Hypatia av Alexandria og et romvesen som har fått jobben med å gjenfortelle menneskenes eventyr. I hjertet av samlingen, fortellingen om et ektepar som reiser langt og bredt sammen, om øyeblikkene, de små og store, som til sammen utgjør et langt liv i kjærlighet - og om det som kommer etterpå.«For nokre ryper! Tilbake­blikk og dystopiar i vilter leik: Margaret Atwood turnerer nostalgi og science fiction med herleg snert.» Marta Norheim, NRK«I disse fortellingene er det mange solen er i ferd med å gå ned for. Likevel er det først og fremst livets fylde Atwood - på dempet, men krystallklart vis - skriver frem (...) Inger Gjelsvik har gjort en strålende jobb med oversettelsen, og hun grublet sikkert litt på hva den norske tittelen skulle bli. «Ryper i solnedgang». Det dreier seg ikke om fugler, nei, i tilfelle noen skulle lure - men om «old babes», som det heter i originalen. Kaja Schjerven Mollerin, Klassekampen«Ryper i solnedgang er en forholdsvis forsonende samling historier. (...) på sitt beste kjennes Ryper i solnedgang som å komme hjem til en klok, eldre dame som kan fortelle at verden er ille, ja, men den er da også virkelig vakker.» Ida Vågsether, Morgenbladet

A dazzling collection of fifteen short stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. Margaret Atwood has established herself as a beloved cultural icon and one of the most visionary and canonical authors of her generation. In this collection comprised of fifteen extraordinary stories--some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine--Atwood speaks to our times with her characteristic wit and intellect. Of special significance are the seven works revolving around the long-term married couple Tig and Nell. Acting as bookends for the collection, these stories look deeply in the heart of what it means to spend a life together, with the four stories in Part I relating tales from their married life, and the three stories at the end showing Nell's reality in the aftermath of Tig's death. In other works, two sisters grapple with loss and memory in "Old Babes in the Wood"; "Impatient Griselda" reprises the folkloric role of Griselda in Bocaccio's The Decameron, exploring alienation and miscommunication; and "Evil Mother" touching on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection, Stone Mattress, Atwood's storytelling gifts and unmistakable style are on full display.

Atwood's first new fiction publication since The Testaments, this deeply personal collection includes 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 afterThe 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. The glorious range of Atwood's creativity and humanity is on full beam in these tales, which by turns delight, illuminate and quietly devastate.'Gripping... a writer in full possession of her powers' Financial Times'These reflections on marriage, mortality and many-tentacled aliens show Atwood's mastery of the short form' Guardian'She's Margaret Atwood, and she can do anything' Ann Patchett'There is no greater living writer' Daily Telegraph'The outstanding novelist of our age' Sunday Times 'A living legend' New York Times Book Review

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together "If you consider yourself an Atwood fan and have only read her novels: Get your act together. You've been missing out." --The New York Times Book Review, Rebecca Makkai, best-selling author of The Great Believers 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.

Discover this sharp, funny short story collection from the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The TestamentsA man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds... In these exceptional short stories, by turns funny and searingly honest, Margaret Atwood captures brilliantly the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.‘An acute and poetic observer of the eternal, universal, rum relationships between men and women’ The Times

A clever and addictive thriller from the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments Rennie Wilford is a young journalist running from her life. When she takes an assignment to a Caribbean island she tumbles into a world where no one is quite what they seem, least of all ‘Yankee’ Paul. Is Paul a drug smuggler? A CIA operative? Either way he’s trouble and his offer to Rennie of a no-hooks, no strings affair, will suddenly draw her into in a lethal web of corruption.'As swift-moving as the best thriller, clipped and laconic, yet deeply and richly sensitive' Sunday Telegraph

Life Before Man is a tragicomic tale of love seeking to find its way in the wake of death from the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The TestamentsElizabeth has just lost her latest lover to suicide while Nate, her husband, is working up to run off with Lesje. And Lesje? She would rather be studying dinosaurs than distracted by men. As Elizabeth, Nate and Lesje find themselves imprisoned by walls of their own construction the ghost of Elizabeth’s dead lover hangs over them. Under his shadow, and in the spell of love, their lives will collide and entangle towards a single tragicomic climax. ‘Tender, funny, absorbing, idiosyncratic, truthful, heartening... A liberating novel’ Literary Review

From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Dancing Girls and Other Stories showcases Margaret Atwood's masterly skill for storytelling. Students, journalists, farmers, birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people. Or are they? In brilliant flashes of fantasy, humour and unexpected violence, Margaret Atwood reveals the complexities of human relationships and maps the motivations we scarcely know we have within us. Populated with characters who evoke laughter, compassion, terror and recognition, Atwood’s stories show why she remains one of our greatest, most original storytellers. 'A remarkable collection' Sunday Times

Kaipuu, kipu ja kepeys kohtaavat Orjattaresi ja Testamentit kirjoittaneen mestarin runokokoelmassa. Yhden aikamme merkittävimmän kirjailijan koskettava, leikkisä ja viisas runokokoelma käsittelee ikuisia teemoja kuten rakkaus, menetys ja ajan kuluminen - sekä zombit ja seireenit. Suvereenina tarinankertojana parhaiten tunnettu, lukuisia palkintoja voittanut Margaret Atwood on myös runoilija. Runoissa katsotaan taaksepäin lopun ja menetyksen äärellä, toisaalta luotetaan jatkuvuuteen. Niissä esiintyvät niin myyttien ja unien hahmot kuin luontokadon myötä taruolennon kaltaisiksi muuttuvat luontokappaleet. Kokoelmassa loistaa Atwoodin mielikuvitus ja persoonallinen tapa katsoa maailmaa.

Nueva traducci n de una de las novelas m s emblem ticas de Margaret Atwood. RECOMENDADO POR JENNA BUSH EN SU CLUB DE LECTURA DEL TODAY SHOW Y EN SU PODCAST READ WITH JENNA Finalista de los prestigiosos premios Booker y Governor General's, es un ins lito escrutinio de la vida cultural canadiense desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta los a os ochenta. Mediante la forja de la personalidad de su protagonista, desde la infancia hasta la madurez, Margaret Atwood repasa, con la vehemente lucidez que la caracteriza, este fascinante per odo en el que el progreso del feminismo se entrelaza con la incesante mutaci n del arte moderno. Con motivo de la primera retrospectiva de su obra en Sub-Versions, una galer a alternativa de Toronto regentada por un pu ado de mujeres, Elaine Risley, una pintora rodeada de un aura de artista pol mica, regresa a la ciudad y al paisaje de su juventud. El reencuentro con la urbe, anta o puritana y gris, ahora destellante bajo las luces de ne n, hace aflorar una profusi n de recuerdos, entre los que destacan im genes de su at pica familia, su exc ntrico y brillante hermano, con quien acostumbraba a jugar a las canicas, y sus antiguas amigas Carol, Grace y, en particular, Cordelia, con las que hab a creado un mundo propio ajeno a las preocupaciones de los adultos. Pasados los a os, Elaine prosigui su camino guardando para s esa etapa extra a de su infancia al que accede gracias a una preciada canica de ojo de gato que le sirve de luz. A trav s de las v vidas descripciones de obras de arte, la fuerza evocadora de las escenas retrospectivas y la presencia de sutiles pinceladas autobiogr ficas, Atwood nos ofrece una magn fica novela de aprendizaje, donde una canica de vidrio transparente con una flor de p talos de colores en el centro gira y gira en un equilibrio tan precario como la vida de las mujeres, que una vez fueron ni as. Perturbadora y mordaz, Ojo de gato revela a una escritora en permanente estado de gracia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life--from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments - READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY - RECOMMENDED ON THE 'READ WITH JENNA' PODCAST- Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all she must seek release form her haunting memories.

"Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of."—Quill & Quire“If you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden, shimmer cultural soup of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries," writes Margaret Atwood, "read the stories of Clark Blaise." This Time, That Place draws together twenty-four stories that span the entirety of Blaise's career, including one never previously published. Moving swiftly across place and time, through and between languages—from Florida's Confederate swamps, to working-class Pittsburgh, to Montreal and abroad—they demonstrate Blaise's profound mastery of the short story and reveal the range of his lifelong preoccupation with identity as fallacy, fable, and dream. This Time, That Place: Selected Stories confirms Clark Blaise as one of the best and most enduring masters of the form—on either side of our shared borders.

V divnom novom mire zhenschiny ne imejut prava vladet sobstvennostju, rabotat, ljubit, chitat i pisat. Oni ne mogut begat po utram, ustraivat pikniki i vecherinki, im zaprescheno vtorichno vykhodit zamuzh. Im ostavlena lish odna funktsija. Fredova - Sluzhanka. Odin raz v den ona mozhet vyjti za pokupkami, no ni razgovarivat, ni vspominat ej ne polozheno. Raz v mesjats ona vstrechaetsja so svoim khozjainom - Komandorom - i molitsja, chtoby ot ikh soitija poluchilsja zdorovyj rebenok. Potomu chto v divnom novom mire Sluzhanka - vsego-navsego sosud vosproizvodstva. Obzhigajuschij nervy roman laureata Bukerovskoj premii Margaret Etvud "Rasskaz Sluzhanki" - ubeditelnaja panorama buduschego, kotoroe mozhet nachatsja zavtra.

Dazhe esli ves mir pokhozh na absurd, khoroshaja kniga ne dast vam sojti s uma. Ljudi rasskazyvajut istorii s samogo nachala vremen. Rasskazyvajut o tom, chto videli i o chem slyshali. Rasskazyvajut o tom, chto bylo i chto moglo by byt. Rasskazyvajut, chtoby otvlechsja, skorotat vremja ili perezhit neprostye vremena. Inogda takie istorii prevraschajutsja v khroniki, letopisi, pamjatniki otdelnym periodam i epokham. Tak pojavilis "Skazki tysjachi i odnoj nochi", "Kenterberijskie rasskazy" i "Dekameron" Bokkachcho. "Novyj Dekameron" - eto tozhe svoeobraznyj pamjatnik epokhe, kotoraja sovershenno tochno vojdet v istoriju. Redaktory The New York Times Magazine sobrali 29 novell, esse, skazok, krokhotnykh zarisovok i razvernutykh rassuzhdenij. V nikh samye izvestnye sovremennye pisateli popytalis zapechatlet i osmyslit sobytija, okhvativshie kazhdyj ugolok mira. V sbornik voshli novelly Margaret Etvud, Kolma Tojbina, Lejly Slimani, Rejchel Kushner, Etgara Kereta, Devida Mitchella, Mony Avad i mnogikh drugikh.

V divnom novom mire zhenschiny ne imejut prava vladet sobstvennostju, rabotat, ljubit, chitat i pisat. Oni ne mogut begat po utram, ustraivat pikniki i vecherinki, im zaprescheno vtorichno vykhodit zamuzh. Im ostavlena lish odna funktsija. Fredova - Sluzhanka. Odin raz v den ona mozhet vyjti za pokupkami, no ni razgovarivat, ni vspominat ej ne polozheno. Raz v mesjats ona vstrechaetsja so svoim khozjainom - Komandorom - i molitsja, chtoby ot ikh soitija poluchilsja zdorovyj rebenok. Potomu chto v divnom novom mire pobedivshego khristianskogo fundamentalizma Sluzhanka - vsego-navsego sosud vosproizvodstva. Obzhigajuschij nervy roman laureata Bukerovskoj premii Margaret Etvud "Rasskaz Sluzhanki" - ubeditelnaja panorama buduschego, kotoroe mozhet nachatsja zavtra.