I Atwoods klassiska dystopi från 1985 ges en bild av ett framtida USA, som förvandlats till den kristet fundamentalistiska republiken Gilead. I kampen mot sjunkande födelsetal rekryteras kvinnor i fruktsam ålder och utnyttjas hämningslöst som Tjänar…
Vinnare av Bookerpriset 2019! I slutscenen av Tjänarinnans berättelse stiger Offred in i skåpbilen efter att ha anklagats av Anföraren och hans hustru. Vart hon förs vet ingen. I sin alldeles nyskrivna fortsättning på Tjänarinnans berättelse, Gilead…
I slutscenen av Tjänarinnans berättelse stiger Offred in i skåpbilen efter att ha anklagats av Anföraren och hans hustru. Vart vet ingen. Så här säger Margaret Atwood själv i ett pressmeddelande om uppföljaren till Tjänarinnans berättelse: "Kära bok…
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offre…
But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood'…
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate des…
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is the story of Offred, one of the few women in the Republic of Gilead left with functioning ovaries, whose only function it is to breed. If she deviates, she will be hanged as a dissenter. Bu…
THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'The Testaments is Atwood at her best .
16-åriga Grace Marks har dömts till livstidsstraff för sin inblandning i det brutala mordet på hennes husbonde, den välbeställde Thomas Kinnear och hans hushållerska Nancy Montgomery. Flera år senare tar den unge doktor Simon Jordan sig an hennes fa…
The wait is over "And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light." 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, priso…
Den snart femtioåriga konstnären Elaine Risley återkommer till sin hemstad Toronto för en retrospektiv utställning. Ett halvt liv tidigare flydde hon staden och ett omöjligt äktenskap. Men inte bara utställningen blir en tillbakablick. Hela hennes t…
A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility.
Boken har varit månadens pocket hos Adlibris i februari 2019 - här hittar du bokcirkelfrågor till boken >> Stan och Charmaine är ett ungt par som drabbats av arbetslöshet och personlig konkurs mitt under den nationella ekonomiska krisen. De tvingas…
Stan och Charmaine är ett ungt par som drabbats av arbetslöshet och personlig konkurs mitt under den nationella ekonomiska krisen. När de får ett erbjudande om att delta i ett projekt i grindsamhället Consilience ser det ut som alla deras problem är…
"Tio dagar efter krigsslutet körde min syster Laura av vägen på en bro." Laura Chases äldre syster, Iris, blev vid 18 års ålder bortgift med en framgångsrik företagsledare. Nu är hon fattig, 82 år gammal och bor i Port Ticonderoga, en liten stad som…
A young woman returns to northern Quebec to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and two friends, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she begins to realise that going home means entering no…
Huvudpersonen och berättaren i boken kallar sig Snömannen. Han sover i ett träd, insvept i ett lakan. Han sörjer sin älskade Oryx och sin bäste vän Crake. Mat och andra förnödenheter försöker han hitta i ett ödelagt område där insekter förökar sig s…
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaids Tale, Booker-Prize winning and international bestselling author Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalized readers for decades: What happens to Offred?When the van door slammed on Offreds futur…
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood's classic, The Handmaid's Tale. More than fifteen years after the event…
Den hyllade teaterchefen Felix ska just sätta upp sitt mästerverk – Shakespeares pjäs Stormen – när han förråds av sin rival och tvingas bort från teatern. Sveket drabbar honom hårt. I tolv år lever han isolerad och hämndlysten medan han…
I en nära framtid i det som en gång var USA men som nu är den kristet fundamentalistiska republiken Gilead lever Tjänarinnan Offred. Offred har precis som många andra kvinnor från början levt ett vanligt liv med man och barn men har nu blivit statli…
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband, from writer of romances to distinguished poet - Marian is utterly confused by her life of multiple identiities. She decides to escape to…
The 10th anniversary edition of The Graveyard Book includes a foreword by Margaret Atwood as well as sketches from the illustrator, handwritten drafts, and Neil Gaiman's Newbery acceptance speech. This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for t…
The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. This middle grade novel is an excellen…
A commemorative edition of a perennial favorite--The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold over one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Special content in this edition includes the story…
I slutscenen av Tjänarinnans berättelse stiger Offred in i skåpbilen efter att ha anklagats av Anföraren och hans hustru. Vart hon förs vet ingen. I sin alldeles nyskrivna fortsättning på Tjänarinnans berättelse, Gileads döttrar, kommer Margaret Atw…
As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends…
Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words…
von Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwoods dystopischer Romanspielt in der nahen Zukunft in der Republik Gilead, einem religiös-fundamentalistischen Staat auf dem Territorium der heutigen USA. Die hier porträtierte Gesellschaft ist der Alptraum…
Inspirerad av en av bröderna Grimms sagor berättar Margaret Atwood historien om Zenia, en vacker och hämndlysten kvinna som tränger sig in i tre andra kvinnors liv, utnyttjar dem och stjäl deras män innan hon uttråkad drar vidare ... Atwood låter os…
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 tormen…
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceElaine 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…
The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club; and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden. Is anyone else out ther…
Toby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the earth, is telling stories. Stories left over from the old world, and stories that will determine a new one. Listening hard is young Blackbeard, one of the innocent Crakers, the species desig…
A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers - a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the God's Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love…
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 lit…
Grace 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 rat…
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale *** A major NETFLIX series
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale Now a major NETFLIX seriesSometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Ar…
A TV-tie-in edition to accompany the six-part Netflix series, from the Man Booker-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale.
A boxed set of the internationally celebrated speculative fiction trilogy from one of the most visionary authors of our time, Margaret Atwood.Set in a darkly plausible future shaped by plagues, floods, and genetic engineering, these three novels tak…
The author of The Handmaid's Tale discusses the writing life and the role of the writer in society, making reference to many other writers, alive and dead, ranging from Dante to Elmore Leonard, to make her case. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
Adam Ett, den goda ledaren för Guds Trädgårdsmästare - en religion som ägnar sig åt att sammankoppla vetenskap, religion och natur - har under lång tid förebådat en kommande katastrof. När katastrofen sedan inträffar utplånas nästan allt mänskligt l…
#1 New York Times bestseller Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, available now. An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (New York Times). Now an awa…
Before The Testaments, there was The Handmaid's Tale: an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (New York Times). The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader…
Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018Audie Award, Fiction, 2013Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale explores a broad range of issues relating to power, gender, and religious politics. Multiple Emmy and Gold…
A chilling look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduct…
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread:…
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-awa…
Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the los…
It stirs depths that Cat's Eye did not reach, and grants deeper stronger powers to women's friendship in distress' MARINA WARNERAn exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize
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…
The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringin…
* Atwood's Booker prize-winning novel reissued with a striking new jacket along with other titles from Margaret Atwood's backlist
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceZenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman''s nightmare. She is also dead. Just to make sure Tony, Roz andd Charis are…
In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. And in that, there is hope. Selected from The Handmaid's Tale and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood. VINTAGE MINIS…
Med en ironisk, ömsint och klarsynt blick på människan utforskar Margaret Atwood våra mellanmänskliga relationer och vårt förhållande till tidens gång, naturen och skrivandet. Det på en gång personliga och politiska tilltalet som karaktäriserar hela…
* EATING FIRE - Margaret Atwood's poetry - reissued with a stunning new jacket along with other titles from Margaret Atwood's backlist
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE In The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative.…
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The beloved author of The Handmaid's Tale reimagines Shakespeare's final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. "A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the serv…
En farsot har svept fram över jorden, men en liten grupp kallad MaddAddamiter överlever tillsammans med de grönögda crakerianerna - en vänligt sinnad humaniod art som framställts med bioteknik för att ersätta människosläktet. Överlevarna i civi…
En farsot har svept fram över jorden, men en liten grupp kallad MaddAddamiter överlever tillsammans med de grönögda crakerianerna - en vänligt sinnad humaniod art som framställts med bioteknik för att ersätta människosläktet. Överlevarna i civilisa…
Lauded novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate on one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of the year! On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by hi…
Winner of the Man Booker PrizeBy the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceLaura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town domina…
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. Thus begins The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-winning novel. Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent Industrialist but n…
