Margaret Atwood (geb. 1939): Freedom, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Freedom
- Publisher:
- Random House UK Ltd, 04/2018
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781784874117
- Item number:
- 7966425
- Volume:
- 133 Pages
- Weight:
- 84 g
- Format:
- 177 x 108 mm
- Thickness:
- 15 mm
- Release date:
- 5.4.2018
- Series:
- Vintage Minis , Vintage Classics
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
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, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. Its sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.
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 and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. 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.
Biography
Margaret Atwood, geboren 1939 in Ottawa, gehört zu den bedeutendsten Erzählerinnen unserer Zeit. Ihr »Report der Magd« wurde zum Kultbuch einer ganzen Generation. Bis heute stellt sie immer wieder ihr waches politisches Gespür unter Beweis, ihre Hellhörigkeit für gefährliche Entwicklungen und Strömungen. Sie wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem renommierten Man Booker Prize, dem Nelly-Sachs-Preis, dem Pen-Pinter-Preis und dem Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels. Margaret Atwood lebt in Toronto. Booker Prize 2019.
