Lady Oracle

12 hrs. 2 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Margaret Atwood

Narrator Irina Vorobyova

Description

“I planned my death very carefully—unlike life, which, mindlessly wriggling from one event to another, flowed against all my pathetic attempts to steer it even into some kind of channel… The trick is to disappear without a trace, leaving behind only the shadow of a dead body—a phantom whose reality will be beyond doubt. At first, I thought I managed it.”

Madame Oracle—who is she? A fat red-haired girl that her own mother wants to stab to death with a table knife, whose hopes she supposedly failed to live up to? The author of gothic love novels hiding under a false name? A mystical poet who created a whole cult with her only mysterious work? Or a dangerous leader of a terrorist cell with unclear—but far-reaching—plans?

You can only gather the fragments of many identities into one way, only by cutting the knot of marriage and love ties…

In the novel “Madame Oracle” (1976), the outstanding Canadian writer and Booker Prize laureate Margaret Atwood once again reveals all the secrets of the creative female soul. For the first time in Russian.