Michèle Albaret-Maatsch Boeken

Margaret Atwood powraca do świata swojej najsłynniejszej powieści po ponad trzydziestu latach. W „Testamentach” minęło piętnaście lat od wydarzeń „Opowieści Podręcznej”. Republika Gilead znajduje się w dramatycznej sytuacji: brakuje jedzenia, rodzą się zdeformowane dzieci, a Podręczne umierają. W tym kraju przemocy żyją obok siebie Ciotka Lidia, okrutna funkcjonariuszka Gileadu, oraz młoda Agnes, przygotowywana do roli Podręcznej. Ich losy obserwuje z bezpiecznego dystansu Daisy, nastolatka z Kanady. Książka bada tematy władzy, oporu i tożsamości, ukazując złożoność życia kobiet w opresyjnej rzeczywistości. Atwood stawia pytania o wiedzę i historię, sugerując, że te elementy są kluczowe w walce o przetrwanie. „Testamenty” to nie tylko kontynuacja, ale także głęboka refleksja nad społecznymi i politycznymi realiami, które wciąż mają znaczenie.

From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek 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 over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; 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.

BLIGEWhen Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening.

She was a thin, lonely child with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul language. Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926--leading their privileged lives of secure routine pleasures--Flora was a ten-year-old misfit. Ignored by her self-absorbed parents, unloved, and pitied by the pleasant, stylish people in Brittany that summer, Flora was--peripherally--included in their gracious circles. And there, meeting kindly civilised people for the first time, she fell in love--with Cosmo--with Hubert--with Feix. It took forty years for the love affairs to be explored, consummated and finally resolved. From the Trade Paperback edition.

When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Max grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years, shaping everything that was to follow.