by Margaret Atwood · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9789176434222
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«Alias Grace» is the historical novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Månpocket in paperback (503 pages, in Swedish).
The story, set in nineteenth-century Canada, follows Grace Marks, a servant convicted of a double murder. Dr. Simon Jordan, a memory specialist, tries to determine whether Grace is hiding something or is a victim of circumstances; the novel explores memory, class, gender, and the construction of truth in the public eye.
Alias Grace was published in 1996, won the Giller Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. This 1998 Swedish edition is a translation by Ulla Danielsson.
For book clubs and for those seeking historical fiction with psychological tension.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
