num_pages: 564
description: This is the wise, unsettling, drastic story of three women whose lives share a common wound: Zenia, a woman they first met as university students in the sixties. Zenia is smart and beautiful, by turns manipulative, vulnerable and irresistible. She has entered into their separate lives to ensnare their sympathy, betray their trust, and exploit their weaknesses. Now Zenia, thought dead, has suddenly reappeared. In this richly layered narrative, Atwood skilfully evokes the decades of the past as she retraces three women's lives, until we are back in the present, where it is yet to be discovered whether Zenia's "pure, free-wheeling malevolence" can still wreak havoc. The Robber Bride reports from the farthest reaches of the sex wars and is one of Margaret Atwood's most intricate and subversive novels yet.
language: English
title: The Robber Bride
titlecomplete: The Robber Bride
characters: Roz, Tony, Charias, Zenia
genres: Fiction, Canada, Womens, Literature, Feminism, Novels, Contemporary, Classics, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 46242
places: Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Ontario
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Caribbean and Canada, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Trillium Book Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Canadian Authors Association Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Virago