Margaret Atwood

Gebundenes Buch

The Handmaid's Tale

Introduction by Valerie Martin

Beschreibung

It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a handmaid. She is hoping the commander makes her pregnant because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she had a job of her own, a husband, and a child, but all of that is gone now.

Autor

MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 134mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780307264602
• ISBN-10: 0307264602
• Artikelnr.: 21260564