From the Backcover of the book: Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to TOronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman -- but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.

The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin , it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.

In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.... Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.

从胖女孩到瘦女孩，从红头发到泥浆色的棕发，从伦敦到多伦多，从波兰伯爵到激进的丈夫——琼•福斯特完全被自己在生活中的多重身份搞得混乱了。她决定逃离一切，去往意大利的一个山城，重新审视自己的生活。然而，首先她必须筹划自己的死亡…… “如果你觉得只有朝九晚五的现实生活最安全，你也许并不欣赏她的书。然而，如果你希望超脱这些现实，试试读她的作品。” ——COSMOPOLITAN “当代英语界最重要的作家之一。” ——GERMAINE GREER “敏锐，有趣，聪明，坦诚，反讽。” ——SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

一个年轻女士，与他的恋人和两个朋友，一起返回魁北克北部的遥远小岛，去查访她父亲的神秘失踪。在往事不断浮现的记忆中，她意识到返回自己度过童年的家乡，不但进入到另一个地方而且也进入到了另一时代。荒岛所展现出的自然力以及沉浸在荒原中的感悟，使她意识到她要寻找的正是她的过去。 “绝对吸引人和令人悦目” ——《周日时报》（Sunday Times） “一本震撼且感人的书” ——《休闲时报》（Time Out） 《浮现》是20世纪最重要的小说之一……是非常不同寻常的 ——《纽约时报》（New York Times）

《帐篷》的内容丰富多彩，就像一盘精心烹饪的杂烩，虽然“杂”，却并不乱，里面的每一样东西都清晰可辨。这部文集是阿特伍德四十多年写作生涯的思想荟萃，集中了她所感兴趣的话题：女性、神话的改写以及生态问题等。 在本书中作者试图努力维护她所热爱的东西，把它们庇护在自己的“帐篷”中。阿特伍德在此书中自比女预言家西比尔，以此回应艾略特的诗歌《空心人》中的很多隐喻。在本书的最后一篇小说的开头，阿特伍德借人物之口说：“事情看起来很糟糕，我承认这点。它们看起来比这多年来，几个世纪来更糟糕……危险无处不在。” 《帐篷》（The Tent）是加拿大作家玛格丽特·阿特伍德于2006年出版的一本小册子。称它为小册子是因为里面的文章（共35篇）篇幅短小，最长不过五至六页，短的仅一两个段落。它们包括短故事、微型传记、童话、诗歌、谈话、寓言、思想片段等，作者还设计了封面插图，并为其中某些短文配上了钢笔画。尽管每篇文章不长，但是它们沿袭了阿特伍德一贯的写作风格和技巧：别出心裁的手法以及对社会的辛辣评论。 可以说这是一部充满了想象力的作品集，媒体曾这样评价它：“巧妙而且有趣……令人恐惧又充满智慧，有先见之明且具有自我意识，使人愉快却又语气尖锐。”