Bøker av Margaret Atwood

"Margaret Atwood has established herself as a beloved cultural icon and one of the most visionary and canonical authors of her generation. In this collection comprised of fifteen extraordinary stories-some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine-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 in "Old Babes in the Wood"; "Impatient Griselda" reprises the folkloric role of Griselda in Bocaccio's The Decameron, exploring alienation and miscommunication; and "Evil Mother" touching on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection, Stone Mattress, Atwood's storytelling gifts and unmistakable style are on full display"--

"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.

Femten helt nye historier fra en av verdens største forfattere. I «Ryper i solnedgang» gir Atwood oss en gruppe gamle akademikervenninner som drikker drinker på formiddagen og krangler om hvem som faktisk lå med hvem for seksti år siden, en historie om seksualitet og forplantning i forlengelsen av Gilead-universet, og en datter som lurer på om moren er en heks. Her er også elskede katter, en forvirret snegle, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, filosof-matematiker-astronom Hypatia av Alexandria og et romvesen som har fått jobben med å gjenfortelle menneskenes eventyr. I hjertet av samlingen, fortellingen om et ektepar som reiser langt og bredt sammen, om øyeblikkene, de små og store, som til sammen utgjør et langt liv i kjærlighet - og om det som kommer etterpå.

A dazzling collection of fifteen short stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.Margaret Atwood has established herself as a beloved cultural icon and one of the most visionary and canonical authors of her generation. In this collection comprised of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—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 in ”Old Babes in the Wood”; “Impatient Griselda” reprises the folkloric role of Griselda in Bocaccio’s The Decameron, exploring alienation and miscommunication; and “Evil Mother” touching on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection, Stone Mattress, Atwood’s storytelling gifts and unmistakable style are on full display.

"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"--

A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing and prophetic author of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood.

When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: "What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?" Her answer is "survival and victims." Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives. This new edition features a foreword by the author.

BITCH. SCOLD. HARRIDAN.For centuries past, and all across the worldDRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL.There are words for a certain kind of womanFURY. HARPY. SPITFIRE.Words that raise our hackles, fire up our bloodHUSSY. SIREN. VIXEN.Words that tell a storyIn this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day take up these words and take up their pen, celebrating fifty years of Virago.

Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love. Hanging over them all is the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover, and the dizzying threat of three lives careening inevitably towards the same climax.

Rennie Wilford, a young jounalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.

Features a man who finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming pale, silent and smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; and a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane. This work captures the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.

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 Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today.

In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from debt and tech to the climate crisis and freedom and the importance of how to define granola-and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?• How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?• How can we live on our planet?• Is it true? And is it fair?• What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?In more than fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.

GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 2020 -- BEST POETRY The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist, poet - and cultural phenomenon. Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Margaret Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognisable and celebrated themes, but distilled -- from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens, from pressing political issues to myth and legend.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 flux, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.Dearly is a pure Atwood delight, and long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight, empathy and humour.'A new volume of poetry by the writer of wit and optimism . . . Just when we needed her most' Gentlewoman*BOOK OF THE YEAR OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES *

USA i nær fremtid. Strålingskatastrofer, truende sykdommer, tiltakende ufruktbarhet og skremmende lave fødselstall har ført til ekstrem puritanisme. Kvinnene har mistet alle rettigheter i det patriarkalske samfunnet som er innført. De er totalt umyndiggjort og inndelt i kategorier. Viktigst er Tjenerinnene - kvinner som fremdeles er fruktbare og som har som oppgave å forsyne ektepar i øvre sosialklasse med barn. Gjennom Tjenerinnen Offred føres vi inn i dette samfunnet. Som de andre er Offred blitt "omskolert" for å glemme sitt tidligere liv, men fortiden lar seg ikke viske bort.

"Lovet være. Margaret Atwood med frydefull genistrek." Anne Merethe K. Prinos, AftenpostenGileads døtre fører videre Margaret Atwoods dystopiske og fascinerende fortelling om Offreds fremtid i Gilead.Margaret Atwoods dystopi ble kjent over hele verden da HBO filmatiserte Tjenerinnens beretning som tv-serie. Gileads døtre er en nyskrevet og selvstendig fortsettelse av Tjenerinnens beretning. Endelig får sultne fans svar på hva som skjedde med Offred etter at hun steg inn i varebilen etter å ha blitt anklaget av Føreren og hans kone. Kan hun overvinne undertrykkelsen og bli fri, eller må hun i døden? Gileads døtre gir svar.Gileads døtre utspiller seg femten år etter Tjenerinnens beretning og her hører vi tre andre kvinner fortelle om den kristne fundamentalistiske staten Gilead. Boken gis ut samtidig som den engelske utgaven.

Snømann er fortelleren i denne fremtidsromanen. Han er en av få overlevende etter en miljøkatastrofe som har etterlatt en jord full av vrakgods og avfall og lumske rovdyr som er avlet fram i laboratoriene. Han er omgitt av crakerne, genspleisede menneskelignende vesener, som han har reddet fra utryddelseskatastrofen. Hver dag blir en kamp for mannen som opprinnelig het Jimmy, som ble fanget inn av den maktglade og geniale Crake, og som elsket Oryx. Dette er den første boken i en trilogi.

Denne romanen, som bygger på faktiske forhold fra 1800-tallets Canada, beretter om Grace Marks som seksten år gammel ble dømt til livsvarig fengsel for drapet på sin arbeidsgiver, Thomas Kinnear og hans husholderske. Hennes medsammensvorne, James McDermott ble hengt for drapene i 1843. Atwood lar Grace møte Simon Jordan, en ung psykiater, som forsøker å finne ut om Grace var en "femme fatale" som sto bak forbrytelsen og som manipulerte McDermott. Eller om hun bare var en vettskremt jentunge, som ble trukket inn i et drama som hun ikke kunne ane rekkevidden av.

Vatnet i rørsle vil ikkje vise megspegelbildet mitt.Berga bryr seg ikkje.Eg er eit ordpå eit framandt språk.(frå Landgang i Quebec)Margaret Atwood (1939) er kanskje mest kjent for sine framtidsromanar, men ho har óg skrive over 10 diktsamlingar. I denne samlinga går ho tilbake til 1832 då Susanna Moodie immigrerte til Canada frå England. Atwood kjente til Moodies sjølvbiografiske bøker om det tøffe livet som immigrant, og i dei fann ho truleg dei same konfliktane som er sentrale for hennar eige moderne forfatterskap; motsetningane mellom natur og kultur, villmark og sivilisasjon, det irrasjonelle og det analytiske.Susanna Moodies dagbøker er ein slags mental dokumentarpoesi, ettersom Susanna Moodie verkeleg har levd. Ho var ein engelsk forfattar som emigrerte med mann og barn til Canada i 1832. I fleire år budde dei i det som den gong var villmark i den gryande nasjonen. Moodie har sjølv skildra det harde pionérlivet, spesielt i boka Roughing It in the Bush (1852). Den har nok inspirert Atwood. Men dikta i Susanna Moodies dagbøker er moderne dikt som går rett inn i motsetningane mellom natur og kultur, villmark og sivilisasjon, det irrasjonelle og det rasjonelle. (Boka blei gitt ut for første gong i 1970.)Susanna Moodie er også ein av bifigurane i Atwoods roman Alias Grace frå 1996.Gjendikting og etterord ved Anne Karin Torheim

Det er nå 400 år siden Shakespeare døde, og i den anledning har et knippe anerkjente og bestselgende forfattere blitt invitert til å lage sine egne moderne versjoner. Margaret Atwoods valg ble Stormen og Hekseyngel er hennes bidrag.Teaterdirektøren Felix har gjort stor suksess, og oppsetningene hans er blitt mottatt med beundring, men også med undring. Nå skal han sette opp Stormen som ingen annen har gjort det før. Ikke bare vil det styrke hans omdømme, det vil også lege hans følelsesmessige smerte. Det var i hvert fall planen. I stedet opplever han et helt uventet svik. Han trekker seg tilbake og forfølges av minnene om sin kjære datter Miranda, som han har mistet. Og han planlegger hevn.Stormen antas å være Shakespeares siste, skrevet i 1610-1611.

Med "MaddAddam" avslutter Margaret Atwood sin fremtidsvisjon som begynte med "Oryx og Crake" og fortsatte med "Flommens år". Det er uhyggelig, skremmende, gripende - og fullt av svart humor. Handlingen foregår i en verden der de fleste menneskene er utryddet, der multinasjonale selskaper har tilrevet seg all makt, bioteknologiske nyvinninger har kommet ut av kontroll, og dyrearter har mutert og fått menneskelige egenskaper. Det har gått flere måneder siden den store katastrofen herjet. Kvinnene Toby og Ren hjelper Amanda når hun blir angrepet av de onde og morderiske painballerne og vender deretter tilbake til leiren. Til deres forskrekkelse følger crakerne dem, disse fredelige, blåhudede vesenene som er skapt av den briljante, nå avdøde Crake. I leiren gjør de så godt de kan for å ivareta sine daglige sysler, skaffe mat og beskytte seg mot de genmanipulerte grisongene og painballerne. Og en dag må de dra ut for å ta den avgjørende kampen. Atwoods dystopi gir ikke leseren en følelse av desperasjon over menneskehetens feilsteg, men heller ærefrykt over vissheten om menneskets store potensial til å utvikle seg.

"Sharp writing . . . Atwood susses out the artistic romper room of our unconscious in art-in mythology, children's tales and ghost stories.... If Atwood had a mascot it would be the trickster. " -John Freeman, San Francisco Chronicle

InDearly, Margaret Atwoods first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived.While many are familiar with Margaret Atwoods fictionincluding her groundbreaking and bestselling novelsThe Handmaids Tale,The Testaments,Oryx and Crake, among othersshe has, from the beginning of her career, been one of our most significant contemporary poets. And she is one of the very few writers equally accomplished in fiction and poetry.This collection is a stunning achievement that will be appreciated by fans of her novels and poetry readers alike.