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…
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…
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…
THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'The Testaments is Atwood at her best . . .To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne EnrightThe Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls wi…
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…
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…
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…
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'…
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…
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…
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…
#1 New York Times bestseller An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. Look for The Testaments, the…
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…
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…
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…
By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals tha…
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…
"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…
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.
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…
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 Grace 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…
A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret AtwoodIn Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the n…
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…
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:…
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.…
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, the author examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poet…
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 ga…
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…
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…
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale 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…
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…
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, prison or death. With The…
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale In the gated community of Consilience, residents who sign a contract will get a job and a lovely house for six months of the year--if they serve as inmates in the Positron prison…
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale Now a major NETFLIX series Sometimes 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? A…
A stunning new hardback edition of Margaret Atwood's classic work of true crime - 'an explosive mixture of murder, sex and class conflict' (Daily Mail) soon to be a major Netflix seriesShortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Orange P…
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…
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…
In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable…
Legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood delivers a surprising look at the topic of "debt" -- a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval. In her intelligent and imaginative approach to the subject, Atwood proposes…
With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humour and unexpected violence, these stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who evoke laughter, compassion, terror and recognition and dramatically demonstrate why Atwo…
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…
"The Testaments" på ryska. Bolshe pjatnadtsati let proshlo s momenta sobytij "Rasskaza Sluzhanki", respublika Galaad s ee teokraticheskim rezhimom po-prezhnemu uderzhivaet vlast, no pojavljajutsja pervye priznaki vnutrennego razlozhenija.…
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…
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…
Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now hes staging a Tempest like no other. It will boost his reputation. It will heal emotional wounds.Or that was the…
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…
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace Zenia 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 ar…
Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners - a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, the preservation of all species, the tending of the Earth, and the cultivation of bees and organic crops on flat rooftops - has long pred…
In his first full-length novel for middle-graders since the international bestseller "Coraline," Neil Gaiman introduces Bod, a boy who is the only living resident of a graveyard. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The final volume in the Everyman's Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone's favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens's Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham's classic illustrations. No…
When it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood's Power Politics startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever.These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the…
In Alias Grace, the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale takes readers into the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century--recently adapted into a 6-part Netflix original mini-series by director Mary Harron and writer/ac…
Sometimes 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? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious w…
The author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin presents a cycle of stories about Penelope, wife of Odysseus, through the eyes of the twelve maids hanged for disloyalty to Odysseus in his absence. Reprint.
A genetic engineer caught in the middle of a chemical accident all of a sudden finds himself with superhuman abilities. With these new powers he takes on the identity of Angel Catbird and gets caught in the middle of a war between animal/human hybri…
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…
