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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. »Funkelnd vor...

In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. "Alphinland," the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In "Lusus Naturae," a young woman, monstrously transformed by a genetic defect, is mistaken for a vampire. And in the title story, a woman who has killed four husbands discovers an...

A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blind Assassin comes a breathtaking novel about a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, 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, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of...

'She's taken our times and made us wise to them' ALI SMITH 'She's Margaret Atwood and she can do anything' ANN PATCHETT'She saw it all coming' TIME 'The outstanding novelist of our age' SUNDAY TIMESImmerse yourself in the creative universe of Margaret Atwood for a riot of life, art and everything in between: the greatest writer of our time tells her own story Raised by scientifically minded parents, Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent, resourceful...