The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life—has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.
Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers . . .
Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away . . .
By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.

洪水來襲的那晚，毫無預警，強烈且夾帶著死亡的氣味。
一夕之間，病菌猶如生了翅膀，以跋扈卻悄然無聲的速度讓世界瞬間化膿，變成屍體橫成的屠宰場。社會體系癱瘓，人類文明毀於一旦。
舉目所見，四周霧氣瀰漫，有種混雜焦糖、柏油與灰燼的燃燒氣味；棄守的城市如老暗礁上的珊瑚，黯淡、了無生氣。
可是，還有「生命」：有著人類髮絲的魔髮羊、看似溫馴但實際凶猛的綿羊獅……
還有人類活著嗎？
一群號稱「園丁會」的宗教團體預測出地球即將因這場天然災害改變，於是在領袖亞當一的帶領下，仿效諾亞方舟，致力保全所有生命，建立了「屋頂崖伊甸園」，試圖找出新的烏托邦。災難果真降臨！多數人類慘遭滅絕，但仍有人倖存。年輕的舞者芮恩被反鎖在工作的性愛夜總會裡而逃過一劫，芳療館主管桃碧則躲入館內，以大量可食的保養品為生……只是，她們能在變樣的世界裡找到生命的出路，獲得心靈救贖？
在《洪荒年代》中，愛特伍打造出如幻似真的未來世界，人類近乎野獸，而人性尚存者反成亡命之徒。故事聚焦在兩位主角桃碧與芮恩於惡夢般世界裡的危險處境和艱難旅程，在悲觀和溫柔間交替，時而充滿智慧，時而在不安中夾雜滑稽。藉由時代和物種快速演變，社會契約與環境穩定性愈來愈薄弱的狀況，試圖警示人類關注世界的偏激和錯亂：對全球暖化的視而不見、暴力的蔓延、濫用基因科技，以及赤裸裸的唯利是圖。堪稱愛特伍最卓越、別出心裁的作品！

Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.

Margaret Atwood's latest brilliant collection of short stories follows the life of a single character, seen as a girl growing up the 1930s to a young woman in the 50s and 60s to half of a couple in the present day, no longer young, reflecting on the new state of the world. Each story focuses on the ways that relationships transform a character's life: a woman's complex love for a married man, the grief upon the death of parents and the joy with the birth of children, the realization of what growing old with someone you love really means. By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwood's celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakeable style to their best advantage.
"Elegant...In Moral Disorder, Atwood travels deep into the expanse of memories and language built up over her writing lifetime and offers a handful of gems to illuminate our times."
-------Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Poignant....Wry....the tremendous imaginative power of [Atwood's] fiction allows us to believe that anything is possible."
--------The New York Times Book Review
"Searchingly intelligent....[These are] beguiling narratives that Atwood unspools with signature grace and incisiveness."
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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。

《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。

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.

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.

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……

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.

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...

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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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.