The Heart Goes Last

Resumen del libro

Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs and in a rather desperate state. So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of Consilience - a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs and a home of their own - they sign up immediately.

All they have to do in return for this suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month, swapping their home for a prison cell. At first, all is well. But slowly, unknown to the other, Stan and Charmaine develop a passionate obsession with their counterparts, the couple that occupy their home when they are in prison.

Soon the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt and sexual desire take over, and Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Margaret Atwood x{0026}lt;/B (Ottawa, 1939) es una de las escritoras más prestigiosas del panorama internacional. Autora prolífica traducida a más de cuarenta idiomas, ha practicado todos los géneros literarios. Entre su amplia producción destacan las novelas x{0026}lt;I Por último, el corazónx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Alias Gracex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El cuento de la criadax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Los testamentosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Oryx y Crakex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El año del Diluviox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Maddaddamx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Ojo de gatox{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El asesino ciegox{0026}lt;/I , la colección de relatos x{0026}lt;I Nueve cuentos malvadosx{0026}lt;/I y los ensayos x{0026}lt;I Penélope y las doce criadasx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Cuestiones candentesx{0026}lt;/I , todos ellos publicados por Salamandra. Ha recibido, entre otros, el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, el Governor General's Award, la Orden de las Artes y las Letras, el Premio Booker (en dos ocasiones), el Premio Montale, el Premio Nelly Sachs, el Premio Giller, el Premio Literario del National Arts Club, el Premio Internacional Franz Kafka y el Premio de la Paz del Gremio de Libreros Alemanes.x{0026}lt;/P