Margaret Atwood is one of the most prominent representatives of modern Canadian literature, poet, prose writer, and essayist. Her work has received many awards, including the Booker Prize, the Governor General of Canada Literary Award, the Italian Premio Mondello and others. The theme of this book, according to the author, is “the most exciting and mysterious thing” she knows, for it intersects money, speech and faith - a combination of truly explosive power. Margaret Atwood considers debt not in a specific material manifestation, but as an idea generated by the human imagination, capable of inciting irrepressible passions and causing equally irrepressible fear, and traces the development of this idea from ancient times to the present day.