Marked by blazingly surreal humor and a colorful cast of eccentric characters, “The Edible Woman” is a groundbreaking work of fiction.Ītwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Those around her fail to notice Marian’s growing alienation until it culminates in an act of resistance that is as startling as it is imaginative. Suddenly empathizing with the steak in a restaurant, Marian finds she is unable to eat meat.Īs the days go by, her feeling of solidarity extends to other categories of food, until there is almost nothing left that she can bring herself to consume. A recent university graduate, she crafts consumer surveys for a market research firm, maintains an uneasy truce between her flighty roommate and their prudish landlady, and goes to parties with her solidly dependable boyfriend, Peter.īut after Peter proposes marriage, things take a strange turn. Marian McAlpin is an “abnormally normal” young woman, according to her friends. The Booker Prize winner is both a scathingly funny satire of consumerism and a heady exploration of emotional cannibalism. The novel put the bestselling author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments” on the literary map. Lega Press is the publisher of the book translated by Razieh Jalali. TEHRAN – “The Edible Woman”, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood’s debut novel published in 1969, has been published in Persian.
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