Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs. Masterfully conceived and executed, this haunting vision of the future places Margaret Atwood at the forefront of dystopian fiction.

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. '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

Den store katastrofen inntreffer, og nesten alt menneskelig liv utryddes. Ren, en ung nattklubbdanser, og Toby, som tidligere har vært medlem av sekten Guds Gartnere, er blant de få som overlever i en verden der ingenting - ikke engang dyrelivet - er til å stole på. "Flommens år" er en fascinerende og spennende roman som inneholder både ømhet, vold og svart humor. Med Atwoods evne til å skape troverdighet i det usannsynlige formes en genial beretning som ytterst sett handler om menneskets forhold til jorden og dens ressurser.

The only novel from best-selling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or in the half-understood innuendos dispensed by best friend Naomi, or in the whispers of boys during Friday night dances. Just like the girls in the movies, she wants to get started on real life. In her only novel, Alice Munro turns her eye to the frustrations, embarrassments, glee and bewilderment of adolescence, and to the brushes with sex, death, violence and birth that shape the lives of girls and women. "I still feel that Alice Munro is mine. I am the perfect audience for her brand of quiet, seething feminism." (Lena Dunham). "In Munro's work, nothing can be predicted. Emotions erupt. Preconceptions crumble. Surprises proliferate." (Margaret Atwood).

Det er skrevet mange bøker om krigene på 1900-tallet, men ikke mange mesterverk. En av krigslitteraturens moderne klassikere er Curzio Malapartes Kaputt. Denne både grusomme og vakre boken bygger i hovedsak på de erfaringene Curzio Malaparte gjorde som krigskorrespondent under andre verdenskrig. Som italiensk statsborger og dermed medlem av Aksemakten, fikk Malaparte en unik mulighet til å følge den tyske krigsmaskinens fremferd. Malaparte reiste langs Østfronten på oppdrag for en italiensk avis, og skrev boken i hemmelighet underveis. Vi følger ham i fråtsende middagsselskaper med tyske offiserer, og blant utsultede og døde i sønderbombede landsbyer. Malaparte synes å oppsøke fare og fest med samme appetitt, og med samme litterære brodd. Kaputt ble første gang utgitt i Italia i 1944, og ble en umiddelbar internasjonal bestselger etter krigen. Den kom første gang på norsk i 1948, men har lenge vært et glemt, men urovekkende kapittel i beretningen om et av forrige århundres største menneskelige katastrofer. «Kaputt er en trist, forbløffende, skremmende og lyrisk bok. Den viser oss resultatet av ideologisk fanatisme, rasisme, forskrudde verdier forkledd som åndelig renhet, og hat overfor livet, i deres mest personlige og skammelige former. Den er essensiell for en hver menneskelig forståelse av den andre verdenskrig.» - Margaret Atwood «En skruppelløs reporter? Antakelig ikke. En av de mest bemerkelsesverdige forfatterne i det 20. århundre? Definitivt.» - Ian Buruma Curzio Malaparte (psevdonym for Kurt Erich Suckert, 1898-1957) var en italiensk journalist og forfatter. Han var tidlig en støttespiller for det italienske fascistregimet, men dreide politisk stadig lenger mot venstre og måtte flere ganger i fengsel etter å ha tirret på seg Mussolinis vrede som en svært frittalende offentlig figur utover på 30-tallet. Før han døde i 1957 testamenterte han sitt praktfulle hus bygget på klippene av Capri, Casa Malaparte, til Folkerepublik

Inspired by a true story, Hannah Kent's Burial Rites was shortlisted for The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, The Guardian First Book Award and The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards. In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of her lover. Agnes is sent to wait out her final months on the farm of district officer Jon Jonsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderer in their midst, the family avoid contact with Agnes. Only Toti, the young assistant priest appointed Agnes's spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her. As the year progresses and the hardships of rural life force the household to work side by side, Agnes's story begins to emerge and with it the family's terrible realization that all is not as they had assumed. Based on actual events, Burial Rites is an astonishing and moving novel about the truths we claim to know and the ways in which we interpret what we're told. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland's formidable landscape, in which every day is a battle for survival, and asks, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others? Burial Rites is perfect for fans of Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood and The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan.

'It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge'. Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaid's, but her role is fixed, her freedom a forgotten concept. Offred remembers her old life - love, family, a job, access to the news. It has all been taken away. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire. Includes exclusive content: In The 'Backstory' you can read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel. "Compulsively readable". (Daily Telegraph).

A stunning bespoke gift package featuring an iconic design from the prize-winning artist, Noma Bar, eye-catching sprayed edges and ribbon. The perfect present for those who like their beauty with a bit of bite. 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.

Discover the late Ursula Le Guin's passionate and enthralling story of a young boy sent to a school of wizardry to learn the ways of magic in the opening quartet of the Earthsea story.'One of the literary greats' Margaret Atwood'The deepest and smartest of writers. Her words are always with us. Some of them are written on my soul' Neil GaimanA Wizard of Earthsea * The Tombs of Atuan * The Farthest Shore * TehanuGed is but a goatherd on the island of Gont when he comes by his strange powers over nature. Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the true way of magic and proves himself a powerful magician. And it is as the Archmage Sparrowhawk that he helps the High Priestess Tenar escape the labyrinth of darkness. But over the years, Ged witnesses true magic and the ancient ways submit to the forces of evil and death. Will he too succumb, or can he hold them back?

An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.

Iris forteller om da hun mistet sin søster Laura i en bilulykke i 1945. Gjennom en avisartikkel får vi høre at mannen til Iris er funnet død i en seilbåt i 1947. I tillegg til fortellinga om Iris og familien hennes, inneholder boka en roman i romanen. Dette er ei science fiction-historie som fortelles av to navnløse elskere som møtes i mørke bakgater.

Toby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the earth, is telling stories. Stories left over from the old world, and stories that will determine a new one. Listening hard is young Blackbeard, one of the innocent Crakers, the species designed to replace humanity. Their reluctant prophet, Jimmy-the-Snowman, is in a coma, so they've chosen a new hero - Zeb, the street-smart man Toby loves. As clever Pigoons attack their fragile garden and malevolent Painballers scheme, the small band of survivors will need more than stories.

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GracePigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility. 'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past' - Independent'Gripping and remarkably imagined' - London Review of Books

Ren, en ung nattklubbdanser, og Toby, som tidligere har vært medlem av sekten Guds Gartnere, er blant de få som overlever en stor naturkatastrofe. Nesten alt liv er utryddet, og Ren og Toby legger ut på vandring på leting etter andre overlevende.