MARGARET ATWOOD

Any vint-i-cinc de la nova era. L’equilibri mediambiental est� en risc i els avenços científics han alterat les espècies de manera extravagant: conills fosforescents. lleons barreja de xai. porcs amb teixit cerebral hum�... El desastre natural que posar� fi a la Terra tal com es coneix. el diluvi que els Jardiners de Déu ­­-una secta que...

Features a man who finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming pale, silent and smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; and a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane. This work captures the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.

More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sinters and their secrets. Set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history, The Blind Assassin is an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal.

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function - to breed. If she deviates, she will be killed. But even an oppressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.