The Heart Goes Last
A Novel. Winner of the Kitschies Red Tentacle 2016
(Sprache: Englisch)
Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin.
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the...
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the...
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Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin.Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around-and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in . . . for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes.
At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.
Autoren-Porträt von Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood, geboren 1939 in Ottawa, ist eine der wichtigsten Autorinnen Kanadas. Ihre Werke liegen in über 20 Sprachen übersetzt vor und wurden national und international vielfach aus gezeichnet. Neben Romanen verfasst sie auch Essays, Kurzgeschichten und Lyrik. Sie wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, u. a. mit dem Booker Prize, dem kanadischen Giller Prize und mit dem Prinz-von- Asturien-Preis (2008),mit dem Nelly-Sachs-Preis (2009) und dem PEN Pinter Prize (2016).Sie lebt mit ihrer Familie in Toronto.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Margaret Atwood
- 2015, 320 Seiten, Maße: 15,9 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0385540353
- ISBN-13: 9780385540353
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.2015
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Englisch
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