About the book: year / Margaret Atwood is one of the most prominent figures in modern Canadian literature. Her works enjoy continued success throughout the English-speaking world, many have been translated into other languages. “Comprehension” (1972) is one of the writer’s early novels, thanks to which she, a young but already famous poet, gained a strong reputation as a talented, original prose writer. Margaret Atwood's novels invite the reader to an honest and frank conversation about the fate of women - our contemporary. Atwood's characters are ordinary Canadians, shown in their everyday, everyday life, but behind these unremarkable destinies, sometimes tragicomic, there is the drama of an entire generation - the drama of loneliness, alienation, general indifference and misunderstanding.