Michèle Albaret-Maatsch Knihy

Dejiny sa neopakujú, ale rýmujú. Keď v roku 1985 Margaret Atwood vydala román Príbeh služobníčky, kniha vzbudila zaslúžený ohlas, ktorý neutíchol viac-menej dodnes. Aj jeho pokračovanie Svedectvá vzbudilo veľký záujem čitateľov aj kritikov – autorka zaň dostala Bookerovu cenu. Dej románu sa odohráva pätnásť rokov po udalostiach opísaných v Príbehu služobníčky a jeho rozprávačkami sú prominentná predstaviteľka gileádskeho režimu a dve dospievajúce dievčatá žijúce v odlišných svetoch – Agnes z Gileádu a Daisy z Kanady. Prostredníctvom ich svedectiev sa pred čitateľom odvíja svet teokratickej diktatúry, v ktorej ženy a ľudské práva neznamenajú vôbec nič.

From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as- Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How can we live on our planet? Is it true? And is it fair? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer- only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.

BLIGEWhen Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening.

First published in 2005, The Sea was critically acclaimed as an extraordinary achievement. It went on to win that year's Man Booker Prize, one of the most hotly contested in the history of the award. When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow. In 2012 Picador celebrated its 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding, Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Years later, Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe. Discover more at picador.com/40

Dinard, printemps 1926. L'hôtel Marjolaine est envahi par une joyeuse colonie anglaise : jeunes gens insouciants, aisés, qui jouent au tennis, dansent, organisent des pique-niques... Lors de ces vacances, Flora rencontre le grand amour : il a pour noms Félix, Hubert, Cosmo. Dix ans plus tard, bafouant tous les principes, en femme libre, elle préférera les trois compères à l'officier de l'armée des Indes que lui destine son père. La morale, les convenances ? Flora n'en a que faire... Ses raisons du coeur en bandoulière, elle arpente les chemins de la vie avec l'insouciance des femmes qui décident de faire rimer amour avec liberté. Délicieusement immorale, Mary Wesley, dans ce jules et Jim très british, fait triompher le plaisir sur la vertu.