Margaret Atwood

"En la República de Gilead, el cuerpo de Defred sólo sirve para procrear, tal como imponen las férreas normas establecidas por la dictadura puritana que domina el país. Si Defred se rebela--o si, aceptando colaborar a regañadientes, no es capaz de concebir--le espera la muerte en ejecución pública o el destierro a una Colonias en las que sucumbirá a la polución de los residuos tóxicos. Así, el régimen controla con mano de hierro hasta...

The theme in this collection of stories concerns diverse relationships, such as the bond between a political activist and his cat, and the situation of a man who finds himself surrounded by women who are shrinking.

Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1976-1986, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade.

"Two-headed poems is Margaret Atwood's first new collection since 1974. In it she extends her poetic range in poems about the violences of history and the relationships among women and between cultures. Though she writes tenderly about the clumsiness of love and reminds us of each day's fragility, both the intensity and the irony of her vision are at their height. Passionately rooted in our time and space, these poems impel us to re-examine our lives."--Back...

In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated...

Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order.