From the Booker Prize–winning author of Oryx and Crake, the first book in the MaddAddam Trilogy, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Internationally acclaimed as ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by, amongst others, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice

In a world driven by shadowy, corrupt corporations and the uncontrolled development of new, gene-spliced life forms, a man-made pandemic occurs, obliterating human life. Two people find they have unexpectedly survived: Ren, a young dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails (the cleanest dirty girls in town), and Toby, solitary and determined, who has barricaded herself inside a luxurious spa, watching and waiting. The women have to decide on their next move—they can’t stay hidden forever. But is anyone else out there?

" Les meilleurs récits dystopiques sont universels et intemporels. [...]La Servante écarlateéclaire d'une lumière terrifiante l'Amérique contemporaine. "Télérama.

Devant la chute drastique de la fécondité, la république de Galaad, récemment fondée par des fanatiques religieux, a réduit au rang d'esclaves sexuelles les quelques femmes encore fertiles. Vêtue de rouge, Defred, servante écarlate parmi d'autres à qui l'on a ôté jusqu'à son nom, met donc son corps au service de son Commandant et de sa femme. Le soir, dans sa chambre à l'austérité monacale, elle songe au temps où les femmes avaient le droit de lire, de travailler... En rejoignant un réseau clandestin, elle va tout tenter pour recouvrer sa liberté.
Paru en 1985,La Servante écarlateest aujourd'hui un classique de la littérature anglo-saxonne et un étendard de la lutte pour les droits des femmes. Si la série adaptée de ce chef-d'œuvre a donné un visage à Defred, celui d'Elisabeth Moss, cette nouvelle traduction révèle toute sa modernité ainsi que la finesse et l'intelligence de Margaret Atwood.La Servanteest un roman polysémique, empli de références littéraires et bibliques, drôle même... et c'est à nous, lecteurs, de découvrir ses multiples facettes.

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A bittersweet short story about mothers, daughters, and the witches’ brew of love—and control—that binds them, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments.

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed. But as the daughter of this bewitching homemaker comes of age and her mother’s claims become more and more outlandish, she begins to question everything she once took for granted.

When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: "What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?" Her answer is "survival and victims."

Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives. This new edition features a foreword by the author.