Vintage: The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be... Zobraziť viac
In her bestselling novel" The Handmaid's Tale, " Margaret Atwood masterfully took us to a chilling world of the future. In her astonishing new novel "Alias Grace, " she just as convincingly takes us back 150 years and inside the life and mind of ... Zobraziť viac
Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Maria McAlphin: she can't eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds - everything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling that she's being eaten.... Zobraziť viac
Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale?... Zobraziť viac
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace. This collection of short stories follows a woman at different points in her life... Zobraziť viac
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. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality and suppressed rage, has just lost her latest lover to suicide... Zobraziť viac
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?) ... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a young woman who 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... Zobraziť viac
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. 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... Zobraziť viac
Virago: The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on... Zobraziť viac
Stan 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, ... Zobraziť viac
On the occasion of VINTAGE's 30th anniversary rediscover the ten bestselling Vintage Classics of all time in beautiful new editions... Zobraziť viac
Die provozierende Vision eines totalitären Staats, in dem Frauen keine Rechte haben. Die Dienerin Desfred besitzt etwas, was ihr alle Machthaber, Wächter und Spione nicht nehmen können, nämlich ihre Hoffnung auf ein Entkommen, auf Liebe, auf Leben... Zobraziť viac
Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious— and disastrous — Fra Zobraziť viac
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 cannot obliterate desire... Zobraziť viac
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.... Zobraziť viac
Little, Brown Book Group: 'If you feel safe only with "nine to five" reality, you'll probably not enjoy her books. But if... Zobraziť viac
Mit ihrem gewohnt feinsinnigen Gespür für die Fallstricke des Alltags nimmt die grosse kanadische Autorin Margaret Atwood in den sechzehn Erzählungen dieses Bandes die Beziehungen zwischen Mann und Frau unter die Lupe... Zobraziť viac
Ein schmales Buch, das es in sich hat, das Parabeln und Mini-Romane enthält, autobiographische Konfessionen, Krimis, Horrorgeschichten, Science-fiction, einiges über Männer, etliches über Vampire, alles über Frauenromane... Zobraziť viac
