Margaret Atwood (51 kníh)
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Margaret Atwood Payback ENIn 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 is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt - before it is too late.
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Margaret Atwood PenelopiádaRomán Penelopiáda kanadskej autorky Margret Atwoodovej vychádza z jedného z najvýznamnejších starogréckych mýtov. Homérovo rozprávanie je však pre ňu už len jednou z verzií, a tak tento notoricky známy príbeh rozpráva po novom, z perspektívy Penelopy. Atwoodová nachádza v Homérovom rozprávaní dosť nezrovnalostí na to, aby mala dôvod pozrieť sa na celý „prípad“ z novej strany. Postupuje ako archeologička textu, pod…
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Margaret Atwood Příběh služebniceProslulý román kanadské spisovatelky vykresluje pochmurnou vizi blízké budoucnosti Spojených států amerických, které se z demokratických výšin propadly do všeobjímajících hrůz totalitního režimu. V okovech nemilosrdného klerofašistického režimu se z každého, kdo se proti němu jakkoli prohřeší, stává otrok. Z plodných žen pak ještě něco mnohem horšího – služebnice, jejichž úkolem je rodit děti, s nimiž se nikdy…
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Margaret Atwood Príbeh služobníčkyŠokujúca vízia Ameriky budúcnosti od nositeľky BOOKER PRIZE 2000. Zaujme pútavým dejom a nadčasovým posolstvom. V románe Príbeh služobníčky sa autorka obracia k budúcnosti. Geniálne poňatá, ohromujúca evokácia Ameriky za totalitného režimu poskytuje obrovský priestor pre neľútostnú iróniu a vtip.
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Margaret Atwood Príbeh služobníčkyMargaret Atwood je kanadská spisovateľka, poetka, feministická a politická aktivistka. Je nositeľkou viacerých prestížnych literárnych ocenení vrátane Bookerovej ceny. Román Príbeh služobníčky potvrdzuje jej povesť veľkej prozaičky. Vo svojej tvorbe sa už viackrát vcítila do zložitej psychiky modernej ženy, no tentoraz sa obracia do budúcnosti. Pohľadom literárnej postavy Fredovej opisuje zákutia skryté pod pokojnou…
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Margaret Atwood Príbeh služobníčkyMargaret Atwood je kanadská spisovateľka, poetka, feministická a politická aktivistka. Je nositeľkou viacerých prestížnych literárnych ocenení vrátane Bookerovej ceny. Román Príbeh služobníčky potvrdzuje...
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Margaret Atwood SurfacingA 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 ...
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Margaret Atwood The DoorFrom the highly acclaimed novelist, comes a new collection of poetry. THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic...
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Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale ENOffred 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 desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
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Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale ENThe seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author, soon to be a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once…
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Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale ENThe 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. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful vision of the future gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's irony,…
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Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's TaleA stunning bespoke gift package featuring an iconic design from the prize-winning artist, Noma Bar, eye-catching sprayed edges and ribbon. The perfect present for those who like their beauty with a bit of bite. 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…
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Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's TaleThe 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 ...
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Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's TaleOffred 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 to ...
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Margaret Atwood, Renée Nault (ilustrácie) The Handmaid's TaleProvocative, 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 ...
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Margaret Atwood The Handmaids Tale ENThe Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates she will, like all dissenters, be hanged 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.
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Margaret Atwood The Heart Goes Last ENStan and Charmaine, a young urban couple, have been hit by job loss and bankruptcy in the midst of a nationwide economic collapse. Forced to live in their third-hand Honda, where they are vulnerable to roving gangs, they think the gated community of Consilience may be the answer to their prayers. If they sign a life contract, they’ll get a job and a lovely house . . . for six months out of the year. On alternating…
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Margaret Atwood The Heart Goes Last ENStan 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 rather desperate state. So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of Consilience - a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs and a home of their own…
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Margaret Atwood The Robber BrideBy 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, ...
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Margaret Atwood The Secret Loves of GeeksIn 2016 Dark Horse released The Secret Loves of Geek Girls, a wonderfully intimate experience from some of the industry's best female creators discussing love, heartbreak and sex...
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Margaret Atwood The TestamentsThe 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...
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Margaret Atwood The Year of the Flood ENThe sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a manmade plague - has ended the world. But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); and Toby, who…
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