When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of
, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.
With
, the wait is over.
Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.
In this brilliant sequel to
acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.
"Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." --Margaret Atwood

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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 - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the book's title: if a writer is to be seen as 'gifted', who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift? Margaret Atwood's wide and eclectic reference to other writers, living and dead, is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences as a writer, both in Canada and on the international scene. The lightness of her touch is underlined by a seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing, and by a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of western literature.

In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. “Lines on a Half-Painted House” made it into the magazine—but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband’s employer, verification that the poem was her original work.
Kumin, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, was part of a groundbreaking generation of women writers who came of age during the midcentury feminist movement. By challenging the status quo and ultimately finding success for themselves, they paved the way for future generations of writers. In A Story Larger than My Own, Janet Burroway brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives.
The essays and poems featured in this collection illustrate that even writers who achieve critical and commercial success experience a familiar pattern of highs and lows over the course of their careers. Along with success comes the pressure to sustain it, as well as a constant search for subject matter, all too frequent crises of confidence, the challenges of a changing publishing scene, and the difficulty of combining writing with the ordinary stuff of life—family, marriage, jobs. The contributors, all now over the age of sixty, also confront the effects of aging, with its paradoxical duality of new limitations and newfound freedom.
Taken together, these stories offer advice from experience to writers at all stages of their careers and serve as a collective memoir of a truly remarkable generation of women.

沒有比理解已逝的人更困難的事了；但也沒有比忽略他們更危險的了……
一樁離奇的車禍，揭發了一段隱藏多年的秘密！蘿拉到底是死於自殺還是意外？事隔數十年，艾莉絲用黑色幽默的語調，述說她與丈夫、情人以及妹妹之間糾纏不清的感情糾葛；掀起一個又一個驚人內幕！
蘿拉死後兩年，經由艾莉絲整理出版了一本署名為蘿拉的小說《盲眼刺客》，描寫一個遭警察全力緝捕的左翼分子，為取悅幽會的女孩，如同《一千零一夜》裡逃避死亡的主角，一次次編造辛克龍星球的奇幻故事。故事中暗藏洶湧的愛情、背叛與死亡。
雙線並行，劇中劇的結構，輕鬆易讀的句子，展現瑪格麗特龐大的寫作企圖。是愛讀小說的人不可不讀的佳作！本書極力挑戰讀者的想像空間，不僅讓人感嘆作者驚人的想像力；而故事高潮起伏、引人入勝的情節，更讓讀者不忍釋手，無法停止閱讀。

One of the world’s most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, these highly imaginative, vintage Atwoodian mini-fictions speak on a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision.
In pieces ranging in length from a mere paragraph to several pages, Atwood gives a sly pep talk to the ambitious young; writes about the disconcerting experience of looking at old photos of ourselves; gives us Horatio's real views on Hamlet; and examines the boons and banes of orphanhood. “Bring Back Mom: An Invocation” explores what life was really like for the “perfect” homemakers of days gone by, and in “The Animals Reject Their Names,” she runs history backward, with surprising results.
Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, The Tent is vintage Atwood. Enhanced by the author’s delightful drawings, it is perfect for Valentine’s Day, and any other occasion that demands a special, out-of-the-ordinary gift.

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.

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. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now . . .
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing,
is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.

In this collection of miscellaneous writings by Margaret Atwood, Gertrude describes what really happened in Hamlet , an ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves, and a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly wrong.

Returning to her poetic roots for the first time in over a decade, Atwood produces a collection of remarkable range and theme, suffused with the seminal author’s shimmering intelligence and lyricism.

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. They explore bodies and minds in transition, 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.
Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognizable 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. It is a pure Atwood delight, and long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight, empathy and humour.

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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 – neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful vision of the future gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's irony, wit and astute perception.
‘Don’t expect to be gripped by a more potent or involving drama this year.’ Telegraph
'I can’t think of another television event that has hit quite such a nerve, and gone on resounding and resonating, worrying and creeping into your soul and into your dreams quite like The Handmaid’s Tale has … It’s as relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it, in Berlin, in 1985. And while all this continues to be real, we need The Handmaid’s Tale – to keep reminding, and resonating, and ringing. Dong, dong, dong.’ Guardian

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 - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs...

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has 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 - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

阿特伍德早期代表作
透过张力十足的悬疑小说架构阐释人生百态
通俗杂志女记者雷妮刚从一场伤痛中走出来，左乳因癌症被切除，男友也离她而去另觅新欢。她怀着寻找一段新生活的愿望，接受杂志社的约稿，到太平洋上一个岛国采风。从她一踏上这个旅游胜地，诡异的事情就与她形影不离，先是神秘的女人托她转送可疑的箱子，既而精明能干而风度翩翩的男子保罗与她陷入爱河，但他行踪不定的作派和岛上的一些奇怪游客一样，始终让雷妮无法看清他们的真实面目。雷妮最终九死一生从发生政变的小岛中逃出，她的人生观又一次发生蜕变……

Margaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. Thirty years later it still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple and universal. Clear, direct, wry, unrelenting —Atwood's poetic powers are honed to perfection in this important early work.

In Homer's account in
, Penelope—wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy—is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan War after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumors, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay, simultaneously. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters, and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and—curiously—twelve of her maids.
In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged maids, asking: "What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope
up to?" In Atwood's dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. With wit and verve, drawing on the story-telling and poetic talent for which she herself is renowned, she gives Penelope new life and reality—and sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.

《人类以前的生活》讲述了三个深陷自我的牢笼难以自拔的人物，他们忍受着爱恨交加、人生悲喜的苦痛与折磨。伊丽莎白是个表面沉静、内心狂野、对过往耿耿于怀、暗藏仇恨的人，她有过很多情人，最近的一个刚刚自杀了。她的丈夫纳特是个善良但没有主见的人，他爱上了莱西娅，正在计划如何与伊丽莎白分手。莱西娅内心单纯，思想上迟迟没有步人社会，热爱恐龙更甚于人类。在他们背后，久久挥之不去的是伊丽莎白死去的情人克里斯的幽魂。三人的冲突和矛盾也随着情节的发展不可避免地将故事推向了同一高潮。

荷馬在《奧迪塞》中，將奧迪俢斯的老婆潘妮洛普，描寫成一個典型忠貞不貳的妻子，她的故事成了代代相傳的好榜樣。奧迪俢斯在海倫被誘拐之後，出發到特洛伊去打仗，潘妮洛普獨守空閨二十年，在面對種種難堪的流言時，潘妮洛普還得咬緊牙關，除了維持綺色佳王朝的尊嚴和扶養任性的兒子泰勒馬科斯長大成人，並且也還要嚴防一百多位追求者輕舉妄動。當奧迪俢斯終於打敗妖魔、玩過眾多女神，並且歷盡千辛萬苦返家時，他把她的追求者連同十二名女僕全都殺光了。
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愛特伍為古老的故事重新添加了花俏的當代趣味，她選擇潘妮洛普和她十二名被吊死的女僕，質問道：「為什麼要吊死這十二名女僕，潘妮洛普心理真正在想些什麼？」在愛特伍迷人、嘻笑怒罵式的敘述技巧中，被重講一遍的故事顯得慈悲、睿智，並且縈繞在人腦海中遲遲不去，讓人覺得整樁事裡透著稀竅。以善於說故事和寫詩聞名的愛伍特，運用她的長才將創意和想像力交織在小說中，給予潘妮洛普新的生命和現實的意義，並且著手為古代的神話找出答案。