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 was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. Her most recent publications are the poetry collections Dearly and Paper Boat; Burning Questions, a selection of essays; Old Babes in the Wood, a volume of short stories; and Book of Lives, her memoir. Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and 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, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

1. 3/5

   Egentligen bara en tio sidor lång essä

   Boken består av en kort essä (We Are Double-Plus Unfree) som publicerades i Guardian 2015, samt utdrag ur The Handmaid's Tale (Tjänarinnans berättelse) och Hag-Seed (Häxyngel). Essän är bra, men varför man skulle vilja läsa bara dessa utdrag ur Tjänarinnans berättelse och Häxyngel förstår jag inte. Margaret Atwood är en fantastisk författare, så naturligtvis är även denna bok läsvärd, men läs hellre hennes riktiga böcker!

   Malin

   24 november 2020