Penelope's cunningly brilliant perspective, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid's Tale.

Penelope, immortalized in legends and myths as the faithful wife of the glorious Odysseus, weaves silently, unraveling and reweaving as she waits for her husband's return. Now, Penelope wanders through the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own view of history - a tale of lust, greed, and murder.

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books in the fields of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to the classic The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include Cat's Eye, which was nominated for the Booker Prize, Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize, and Oryx and Crake, which was nominated for the Man Booker Prize. Her latest novel, The Year of the Flood, was published in 2009. In 2008, she received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature.