Contexts of World Prose - AP English Literature and Composition

While it does contain some religious references, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) is first and foremost a feminist novel that discusses gender dynamics, power, sexuality, and reproductive rights.

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, and essay writer. She was born in 1939 in Ottawa. Atwood continues to live in Canada, now in Toronto, and is active on the Canadian literary and eco-political scenes.

The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) is set in a futuristic, dystopian society. While it does contain some science fiction elements, Atwood herself has resisted this classification, preferring her work be termed dystopian or speculative fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is not a fantasy novel: there is no use of magic by any of the characters in the story.

The English Patient is Michael Ondaatje’s 1992 Booker Prize-winning novel.

Canadian author Joseph Boyden wrote The Three Day Road (2005), Indonesian author Mochtar Lubis wrote Maut dan Cinta (Death and Love) (1977), Canadian author Margaret Atwood wrote The Edible Woman (1969), and Canadian author Alice Munro wrote Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974) (She has also recently had a Canadian postage stamp commisioned in her honor!).

The English Patient (1992) concerns four characters (a nurse, a thief, a burn victim, and a British soldier) flung together in a dilapidated Italian villa towards the end of World War II.

Although he was born in Sri Lanka in 1943, Michael Ondaatje is a Canadian writer. He moved to Canada in 1962.

Ondaatje wrote Coming Through Slaughter (1976), In the Skin of a Lion (1987), Divisadero (2007), and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems (1970). He did not write Oryx and Crake, a 2003 novel by Margaret Atwood.

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001) is Alice Munro’s tenth collection of short stories.

Ursula K. LeGuin wrote The Dispossessed (1974), Carol Shields wrote The Stone Diaries (1993), Jeanette Winterson wrote Sexing the Cherry (1989), and Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote Anne of Green Gables (1908).

Alice Munro is a Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer.

The House of the Spirits is a 1982 novel by the Chilean-American author Isabel Allende. All the rest are titles by Alice Munro.

Dance of the Happy Shades was published in 1968, Runaway was published in 2004, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You was published in 1974, and Lives of Girls and Wome n was published in 1971.

Munro’s fiction is characterized first and foremost by a strong realist bent, innovative chronological structures and a spare, unadorned prose style.

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage was published in 2001.

The Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez wrote Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), a novel about a secret relationship and a love triangle based in a city inspired by Cartagena.

Isabel Allende wrote La isla bajo el mar (Island Beneath the Sea) (2010), Jorge Luis Borges wrote_Historia universal de la infamia (A Universal History of_ Infamy) (1935),Octavio Paz wrote Raíz del hombre (1937), and Gabriela Mistral wrote Lecturas para Mujeres (Readings for Women) (1923).

Like Water For Chocolate is a 1989 novel by the Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. Of Love and Other Demons was published in 1994, One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967, Chronicle of a Death Foretold was published in 1981, Love in the Time of Cholera was published in 1985, and “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” was published in 1955 – all by Gabriel García Márquez.

Gabriel García Márquez is known primarily as a magical realist writer, and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), one of his most famous novels, is no exception to this blend of everyday realism and unexplained magical events.

Love in the Time of Cholera was first published in Spanish in 1985 and in English in 1988.

The poet, playwright, and fiction writer Halldór Laxness (née Halldór Guðjónsson) wrote the novel Independent People (1934), a two-volume work about the difficult lives of impoverished Icelandic farmers in the early 1900s.

Tove Jansson wrote Kometjakten (Comet in Moominland) (1946), Stieg Larsson wrote Män som hatar kvinnor (literally translated as "Men Who Hate Women," published in English under the title The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) (2005), Karl Ove Knausgård wrote Min Kamp (My Struggle) (2009-2011), and Henrik Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt (1867).

Halldór Laxness published Independent People in two parts in 1934 and 1935.

Halldór Laxness is Icelandic – the only Icelandic writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Finn Family Moomintroll is a 1948 children’s book by Tove Jansson, the creator of the beloved Moomin creatures. The Fish Can Sing (1957), World Light (1969), Iceland’s Bell (1943), and Under the Glacier (1972) are all by Laxness.