Eighty -five years – they will be 86 in November – they are a significant milestone to draw a first budget of one’s life. Thus does Margaret Atwood, one of the largest and most celebrated contemporary writers and poetesses, in Our lives (‘Book of Lives. A Memoir of Sorts’ The original title), a contemporary Memoir all over the world on November 4, 2025. To publish the latest effort of the Canadian narrator in Italy is Ponte alle Grazie.
The writer tells her story, the meetings, her vision of the world, offering an unpublished panorama on her creative universe and accompanying the reader in a riot of life and art. Raised by scientist parents – the entomologist father, the dietary mother -, Atwood spent the first part of his life in the Quebec forests: his was a free and nomadic childhood, sometimes lonely, but also exciting and beautiful.
It is from this unconventional beginning that Atwood unfolds the history of his life, connecting the fundamental moments to the books that have shaped his literary panorama and that of his readers: from the cruel year he generated Cat eye to the Orwellian Berlin of the eighties in which he was born The story of the ancella. Among the pages there are ‘fantastic’ encounters, life with the charismatic husband Graeme Gibson and important political turns. And then there are poets, bears, Hollywood actors and great protagonists of the twentieth century. While traveling with her along the course of her existence, the reader is revealed more and more on her writing, on the connections between real life and art, and on how the mind of a great intellectual and writer works.
The author
Margaret Atwood is one of the most important voices of Canadian narrative and poetry. Graduated from Harvard, she made her debut at nineteen years. He has published novels, short stories, poetry collections, children’s books and essays. Several times candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature, he won the Booker Prize in 2000 for The blind killer. Among its most important titles are there The other grace (2008), The story of the ancella (2017), The song of Penelope (2018), The testaments (winner of the Booker Prize 2019), The woman to eat (2020), Personal injuries (2021), Old children lost in the woods (2023).
The cover
