Lady Orakel

'Funkelnd vor Lebendigkeit' Sunday TimesFünfzehn neue Geschichten von Margaret AtwoodAtwood-Leser:innen wissen es schon lange: Eine der großen Stärken ihrer Lieblingsautorin ist die kurze Form. Neben zwei umwerfenden Storysequenzen aus dem Leben eines Paares - mit all den großen und kleinen Momenten, aus denen eine lange Liebe besteht - enthält dieser Band viele weitere Geschichten: Zwei beste Freundinnen streiten über die gemeinsame Vergangenheit; wie rettet man jemand vor dem Ersticken; Kabbale und Liebe unter älteren Akademikerinnen; woher weiß man schon, ob die eigene Mutter wirklich eine Hexe ist ... Es geht um geliebte Katzen, eine verwirrte Schnecke, ein märchenerzählendes Alien, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell und Hypatia von Alexandria. Wunderbar humorvoll beschrieben geht es um all die großen und kleinen Momente, die eine so lange Liebe ausmachen und damit auch um Abschied und Trauer.'Margaret Atwood kann einfach alles!' Ann Patchett'Diese, ihrem verstorbenen Lebensgefährten gewidmeten Reflexionen über Ehe, Sterblichkeit und vielarmige Außerirdische beweisen einmal mehr Atwood Meisterschaft in der kurzen Form.' The Guardian'Das ist Atwood. Das ist unsere viergesichtige Janus-Göttin - ein Gesicht ist der Vergangenheit zugewandt, eines der Gegenwart, eines der Zukunft und das vierte ist in einem Raumschiff und erzählt Geschichten über Pferde als Zwischenmahlzeit. Lang möge sie regieren! ' The New York Times'Es gibt keine größere lebende Autor:in!' Daily Telegraph

BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE<BR>FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE<BR>THE FIRST VOLUME IN ATWOOD'S DARKLY WITTY MADDADDAM TRILOGY<BR><BR>'Shocking and darkly humorous . . . A book to galvanise' DAILY TELEGRAPH<BR><BR>'Towering and intrepid . . . Atwood does Orwell one better' NEW YORKER<BR><BR>'Both profound and impish . . . Atwood is one of the most impressively ambitious writers of our time' GUARDIAN<BR><BR>'Oryx and Crake is Atwood at her best - dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry' INDEPEDENT<BR><BR>Jimmy is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human. He lives in a tree, dresses himself in old bedsheets, and now calls himself Snowman. He mourns the loss of his best friend, Crake. And the voice of Oryx, the woman they both loved, teasingly haunts him.<BR><BR>Before, Snowman had led a privileged life. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Was he himself in any way at fault? Why has he now been left alone with his bizarre memories? And why are the green-eyed, more-than-perfect Children of Crake seemingly his responsibility?<BR><BR>Searching for answers, Snowman embarks on a journey through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride - a near future that is outlandish yet all too familiar.<BR><BR>'Gripping and remarkably imagined . . . it joins The Handmaid's Tale in the distinguished company of novels [like] The Time Machine, Brave New World and 1984' THE TIMES<BR><BR>'A powerful vision' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<BR><BR>'Atwood's dry wit makes dystopia fun' PEOPLE<BR><BR>'Gripping and remarkably imagined' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS<BR><BR>'A roll of dry, black, parodic laughter' THE ECONOMIST

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.<BR><BR>More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.<BR><BR>Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.<BR><BR>With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.

Una brillante colección de ensayos que abarca desde la deuda pública hasta la naturaleza de la ciencia ficción y la crisis climática. La galardonada y exitosa autora de El cuento de la criada y Los testamentos ofrece su divertida, erudita, curiosa y asombrosamente clarividente visión del mundo, desde la deuda y la tecnología hasta la crisis climática y la libertad, y busca respuestas a cuestiones candentes como... ¿Por qué la gente cuenta historias, sea cual sea su cultura? ¿Cuánto puedes dar de ti sin evaporarte? ¿Cómo podemos vivir en nuestro planeta? ¿Qué relación hay entre los zombis y el autoritarismo? Una colección de ensayos de actualidad con el marchamo indiscutible de la que quizá sea la novelista viva más famosa y, sin duda, la más venerable de nuestro tiempo.La crítica ha dicho... 'La autora de El cuento de la criada vuelve a probar su condición de profeta de la modernidad capaz de diseccionar los retos de las sociedades modernas.' Pablo Gil, El Mundo 'Desbordante siempre de humor, de curiosidad inquieta y de erudición dinámica y no anquilosada.' Mercedes Monmany, ABC - Cultural'Ésta no es una mera colección de ensayos para los entusiastas de Atwood. Más bien es un intento de dar sentido al mundo, que aborda con un brío característico cualquier cosa, desde Ana la de Tejas Verdes a Donald Trump, desde los zombis a la censura [...]. Mientras que el tono se mueve entre el ingenio surrealista fuera de serie y la gravedad desapasionada, Atwood siempre consigue que la idea de las grandes preguntassea un poco más digerible. [...] La colección es polifónica, entusiasta, esclarecedora.'Sophie Macintosh, i News 'Es fascinante leer las reflexiones de Atwood sobre sus propias novelas [...], pero también es llamativo ver cuántas piezas incluye en este libro que celebran de manera generosa a otros escritores.'Stephanie Merritt, The Observer'Si hay una persona en el mundo cuya opinión sobre las cuestiones más apremiantes te gustaría conocer, seguramente sería Margaret Atwood. [...] Da respuesta a preguntas candentes sobre el cambio climático, el ascenso de Trump y sobre la deuda técnica.'Joanna Taylor, Evening Standard'Una colección de ensayos para devanarse los sesos de Margaret Atwood, la autora ganadora del premio Booker. Percepciones maravillosamente escritas que van desde los zombis a la crisis climática.'Stylist 'Me bebí el libro el fin de semana pasado, de dos cálidos tragos.'Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic

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 ...Margaret Atwood entwirft in 'Oryx und Crake' eine dystopische Welt, eine Welt der Umweltkatastrophen und des Klimawandels, der Sturmfluten und Epidemien, in der sich die wenigen Reichen in streng gesicherten Wohnkomplexen von den verarmten Massen abschotten.'Ein atemberaubender Science-Fiction-Thriller und ein beißender Kommentar auf den Zustand unserer Welt.'NDR

BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE<BR><BR>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 women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.<BR><BR>'Brilliant . . . Atwood's prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin' HILARY MANTEL<BR><BR>'The outstanding novelist of our age' SUNDAY TIMES<BR><BR>'A sensuous, perplexing book, at once sinister and dignified, grubby and gorgeous, panoramic yet specific . . . I don't think I have ever been so thrilled' INDEPENDENT

Can we ever be wholly free? <BR><BR>In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms to speak and to act to preserve our freedom while we still can. And in that, there is hope.<BR><BR>Selected from The Handmaid's Tale and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood.<BR><BR>VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.<BR><BR>A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

The novel that put the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments on the literary map. The Booker Prize winner's first novel is both a scathingly funny satire of consumerism and a heady exploration of emotional cannibalism.<BR><BR> Marian McAlpin is an “abnormally normal” young woman, according to her friends. A recent university graduate, she crafts consumer surveys for a market research firm, maintains an uneasy truce between her flighty roommate and their prudish landlady, and goes to parties with her solidly dependable boyfriend, Peter. But after Peter proposes marriage, things take a strange turn. Suddenly empathizing with the steak in a restaurant, Marian finds she is unable to eat meat. As the days go by, her feeling of solidarity extends to other categories of food, until there is almost nothing left that she can bring herself to consume. Those around her fail to notice Marian’s growing alienation—until it culminates in an act of resistance that is as startling as it is imaginative. Marked by blazingly surreal humor and a colorful cast of eccentric characters, The Edible Woman is a groundbreaking work of fiction.