Universal Soldiers.

The article presents information on the book "The Robber Bride," by Margaret Atwood. It is against the background of this war that Margaret Atwood has set her latest novel about treachery and power, forgiveness and solidarity. The familiar world of international showdown with Iraq is also the site of European ethnic tensions and the crumbling of the Soviet bloc, of economic recession and ecological disasters, and--closer to home--of the public and especially the private battles of the sexes that readers of Atwood's fiction will know well.