Bücher von Margaret Atwood

** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel behind the award-winning TV series before you read the 2019 Booker Prize-winning sequel The Testaments I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light. Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford her assigned name, Offred, means of Fred . She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs.Masterfully conceived and executed, this haunting vision of the future places Margaret Atwood at the forefront of dystopian fiction.'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it no television event has hit such a nerve Guardian READ THE TESTAMENTS, THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING SEQUEL TO THE HANDMAID S TALE, TODAY

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceToby, 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 designed to replace humanity. Their reluctant prophet, Jimmy-the-Snowman, is in a coma, so they've chosen a new hero - Zeb, the street-smart man Toby loves. As clever Pigoons attack their fragile garden and malevolent Painballers scheme, the small band of survivors will need more than stories.

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 Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

By the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACE* Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. 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. *Praise for Oryx and Crake:'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past' -INDEPENDENT'Gripping and remarkably imagined' -LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

The tenants of a Manhattan apartment building have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories in this exciting new twist on the novel.With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now - become real neighbours.With each character secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood to John Grisham and Celeste Ng, Fourteen Days is a heart-warming ode to the power of storytelling and human connection.'Immensely enjoyable... Fourteen Days is lively, freewheeling... An impressive achievement' Observer'Fourteen Days serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners)' Financial TimesIncludes writing from: Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Erica Jong, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Doug Preston, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Meg Wolitzer and many more.

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 dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama.

From the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Handmaid's TaleSet in the visionary future of Atwood's acclaimed Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. In this second book of the MaddAddam trilogy, the long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. Among the survivors are Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Amid shadowy, corrupt ruling powers and new, gene-spliced life forms, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move, but they can't stay locked away.

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

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 spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years.'Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between school bully and victim...Atwood's games are played, exquisitely, by little girls' LISTENERAn exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize

From the #1New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleIn this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby is part of a small band of survivors, along with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth.As Toby explains their origins to the curious Crakers, her tales cohere into a luminous oral history that sets down humanity's pastand points toward its future. Blending action, humor, romance, and an imagination at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world, MaddAddam is vintage Atwooda moving and dramatic conclusion to her epic work of speculative fiction.ANew York TimesNotable BookAWashington PostNotable BookABest Book of the Year: The Guardian, NPR,The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and MailA GoodReads Reader's Choice

** Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction **Selected as a Book of the Year -- Observer, Sunday Times, Times, Guardian, i magazine `It's got a thunderstorm in it. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda.

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace* The trick was to disappear without a trace, leaving behind me the shadow of a corpse, a shadow everyone would mistake for solid reality. At first I thought I'd managed it. Fat girl, thin girl. Red hair, brown hair. Polish aristocrat, radical husband. Joan Foster has dozens of different identities, and she's utterly confused by them all. After a life spent running away from difficult situations, she decides to escape to a hill town in Italy to take stock of her life. But first she must carefully arrange her own death. *'A mistress of controlled hysteria' - Time'If you feel safe only with "e;nine to five"e; reality, you'll probably not enjoy her books. But if you'd like to lift off, try her' - Cosmopolitan

"A new collection of essays from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. Short Description / Web 'About this Book' From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of nonfiction-funny, erudite, intimate, impassioned, and always startlingly prescient-which grapples with such wide-ranging topics as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How do we get rid of the immense amount of plastic that's littering our seas and lands? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? Is science fiction now writing us? So what if beauty is only skin deep? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? Is it true? And is it fair? In over fifty pieces, taken from lectures, autobiographical essays, book reviews, cultural criticism, obituaries, and new introductions to her own body of work (including The Handmaid's Tale thirty years after its initial publication) as well as that of other writers, we watch Atwood aim her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and report back to us on what she finds. From asking what society's youth expects from its elders (2004), to pondering the philosophical underpinnings of debt (2008, not surprisingly), to encountering a mysterious new platform called Twitter (2009), to asking if it is, in fact, too late to save the planet (2015) or what forces have been unleashed in the age of Trump (2016), and culminating in a breathtaking meditation on grief and poetry in the wake of her own loss (2020), Atwood provokes, probes, delights, surprises, and rewards the reader at every turn"--

A curious collection of essays, seeking answers to BURNING QUESTIONS such as: Why do people everywhere tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us.

"In this collection comprised of fifteen ... stories, ... 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; ... 'Impatient Griselda' reprises the folkloric role of Griselda in Bocaccio's The Decameron, exploring alienation and miscommunication; and 'Evil Mother' [touches] on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch"--

Geschichten machen die Welt zu einem besseren Ort Packend, anrührend, voller Überraschungen - dieses einzigartige literarische Projekt versammelt viele der erfolgreichsten Autorinnen und Autoren aller Genres der Gegenwart und verknüpft beeindruckende Erzählungen raffiniert durch eine brillante Rahmenhandlung. New York im April 2020. Während des ersten Lockdowns treffen sich die Bewohner eines Mietshauses abends auf dem Dach und erzählen einander Geschichten. Jeder Mieter und jede Mieterin steuert eine Geschichte bei (wahr oder zumindest gut erfunden) und ein neues Decamerone für unsere Zeit nimmt seinen Anfang. Die Erzählungen sind so unterschiedlich wie die Menschen, die sich hier versammeln, und über die Geschichten in dieser Ausnahmesituation entwickelt sich ein ganz neuer Zusammenhalt. Allmählich findet die Runde zu einer unerwarteten Gemeinschaft und Anteilnahme füreinander.  Vierzehn Tage und Abende auf dem Dach eines Mietshauses in New York: Dieses Buchprojekt ist ein Lobgesang auf Leben, Menschlichkeit und Gemeinschaft. Ein einzigartiges Romanprojekt, das 36 der hochkarätigsten Autorinnen und Autoren der US-Gegenwartsliteratur versammelt - von Margarete Atwood bis Sylvia Day, von Celeste Ng bis John Grisham. Alle Autoren dieses Buchs: Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Jennine Capo Crucet, Pat Cummings, Joseph Cassara, Angie Cruz, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Maria Hinojosa, Mira Jacob, Erica Jong, CJ Lyons, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Mary Pope Osborne, Douglas Preston, Alice Randall, Caroline Randall, Ishmael Reed, Roxana Robinson, Nelly Rosario, James Shapiro, Hampton Sides, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rachel Vail, Weike Wang, DeShawn Charles Winslow, Meg Wolitzer

It's late, its very late;too late for dancing.Still, sing what you can.Turn up the light. Sing on:sing: On.Es ist spät, allzu spät;zu spät zum Tanzen.Und doch, sing, was du nur kannst.Dreh die Lichter auf: Sing weiter,sing: Weiter.Margaret Atwoods jüngste Gedichte ins Deutsche übertragen von Büchner-Preisträger Jan Wagner

'Die Atwood-Magie: intelligent, witzig, aufregend.' The Times Crake und Jimmy sind Freunde, und sie lieben dieselbe Frau: die rätselhafte Oryx. Sie leben in einer von Klimakatastrophen bedrohten Welt in einer gar nicht so fernen Zukunft. Crake, ein Genie genetischer Manipulation, ist Wissenschaftler und arbeitet an der Entwicklung neuer Medikamente, die die Menschen gegen Epidemien immunisieren sollen, aber er verfolgt darüber hinaus seine ganz eigenen Pläne¿... 'Ein atemberaubender Science-Fiction-Thriller und ein beißender Kommentar auf den Zustand unserer Welt.' NDR

Die Drei drolligen Dramen kitzeln die Lachmuskeln. Sie führen in die Welt der aufregenden Abenteuer und der Alliteration, der gleichen Anfangslaute. Die drei Geschichten für kleine und große Kinder ab 7 Jahren wollen laut vorgelesen oder selbst laut gelesen werden. - Rüpel Ramsay und die randalierenden Radieschen Ramsay nimmt vor seiner raubeinigen Restfamilie - Ron, Rollo und Ruby - Reißaus. - Bedauernswerter Bob und Düstere Dorinda Von Baby Bob und der düsteren Dorinda, deren dünnlicher Dad und dickliche Mum bei einem Dammbruch in Dschibuti verloren gegangen sind ...- Die wandernde Wanda und Witwe Wischwaschs Wunder-WäschereiDie wandernde Wanda wird in einen Weidenkorb gezwängt und landet mit drei weiteren Waisen in der Wunder-Waschküche von Witwe Wischwasch ...

Die besten Stories von Margaret AtwoodOb es nun um die Leiden einer Heranwachsenden geht, die Untiefen einer Ehe oder den Besuch von Außerirdischen auf unserem Planeten ¿ in Margaret Atwoods Geschichten wird vermeintlich Vertrautes zum Abenteuer und Science-Fiction zum Alltag. Ihr außergewöhnlicher Sinn für ultraknappe Pointen und ironische Zuspitzungen machen Atwood zu einer wahren Meisterin der kurzen Form. Dieser Sammelband spannt einen Bogen über mehr als sechzig Jahre ihres Schreibens; ein halbes Dutzend der Geschichten wurde für diese Anthologie erstmals ins Deutsche übersetzt.

Provokant. Erschreckend. Prophetisch. Einer der besten dystopischen Romane aller Zeiten. Die Dienerin Desfred besitzt etwas, das ihr alle Machthaber, Wächter und Spione nicht nehmen können - ihre Hoffnung auf ein Entkommen, auf Liebe, auf ein Leben. Die provozierende Vision eines totalitären Staats, in dem Frauen keine Rechte haben. 'Mit ¿Der Report der Magd¿ hat sich Margaret Atwood in die Nachfolge von Aldous Huxley und George Orwell hineingeschrieben.' Der Spiegel

Ein ganzes Leben in Gedichten Margaret Atwood ist eine der berühmtesten Autorinnen der Gegenwart und ihr Roman Der Report der Magd fast schon ein Mythos. Doch wer mehr über sie als Mensch wissen will, muss ihre Gedichte lesen, denn darin erzählt sie von sich selbst. Man begegnet so der kämpferischen Kanadierin, der Feministin und der Umweltaktivistin. Aber vor allem entdeckt man die Reisende und die Naturliebhaberin, das Kind und die Mutter, die Geliebte und die Liebende. Um die Schönheit von Margaret Atwoods Poesie auch in der deutschen Übersetzung zu bewahren, haben neun eminente hiesige Lyrikerinnen und Lyriker dieser Auswahl ihre Stimme geschenkt.

Desfred ist Magd in Gilead, wo Frauen weder Beruf noch Freundschaften haben, ja nicht einmal lesen dürfen. Sie dient im Haus des Kommandanten. Dort hat sie nur eine Daseinsberechtigung: Einmal im Monat muss sie sich auf den Rücken legen und beten, dass der Kommandant sie schwängert. Denn in Zeiten zurückgehender Geburten besteht der Wert Desfreds und der anderen Mägde allein darin, dass sie fruchtbar sind. Aber Desfred hat die Zeiten vor Gilead erlebt, als sie eine unabhängige Frau war ... Margaret Atwood selbst hat ihren Klassiker für diese Graphic Novel bearbeitet - und »Der Report der Magd« gewinnt durch die Verdichtung des Textes und die kongenialen Zeichnungen Renée Naults noch einmal eine ganz eigene Dringlichkeit und Intensität.

»Man wird daran erinnert, dass Atwood eine heraus­ragend komische (und natürlich auch sehr ernste) Autorin ist; ihr Witz ist herrlich entspannt und so einfallsreich wie scharf.« Spectator »Immer wenn ich gerade beschlossen habe, weniger zu schreiben und lieber etwas für meine Gesundheit zu tun, zum Beispiel Eistanz, ruft unweigerlich ein Redakteur an und macht mir mit zuckersüßer Stimme ein Angebot, das ich nicht ablehnen kann. Dieses Buch ist gewissermaßen das Ergebnis meiner unter­entwickelten Fähigkeit, nein zu sagen.« Die interessantesten Essays und Artikel aus einem fast 50-jährigen literarischen Schaffen in deutscher Sprache ¿ eine Chronik des Lebens und Schreibens von Margaret Atwood. Erstmals im Taschenbuch!