According to the translation database of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies,1 in the former Communist block, the Hungarian translation of Surfacing was the second book by Atwood published in the region in 1984. It was preceded only by Lady Oracle published in 1982 in Bulgarian. The bibliographic data shows that while the translations of Atwood’s novels were available in the surrounding post-Communist countries well before 2017, in the Hungarian literary field, it was relatively difficult to introduce Atwood even after the political change. It was only the HBO-GO film series The Handmaid’s Tale that changed that. The journey of the book was thus rather difficult. The Handmaid’s Tale was translated into Hungarian twenty-one years later than its English language publication by Enikő Mohácsi in 2006, initially with Lazi Publisher, a small publishing enterprise in the city of Szeged. By that time, the book was recommended no longer by a reader’s report, but through Katalin Kürtösi, PhD, professor at the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Szeged. When it was published in 2006, it did not find a receptive readership. Although Lazi tried to improve its marketing strategy and changed the book cover, it did not sell well.2 An edited translation of the novel with a new marketing strategy was put on the market in 2017 by Jelenkor Publishing House part of the Libri conglomerate located in Budapest and since that time, thanks to the HBO-GO series adaptation that came out under the same title in the same year, the book has been reprinted eleven times (Kovács, 2019). The most reviewed book before the change of regime, The Edible Woman, was translated forty-four years after the original Canadian release in 2020 by Ágnes Csonka for the Atwood-series of Jelenkor Publishing House, who holds exclusive translation rights for Atwood. Finally, from the list of Atwood books considered for publishing between 1974 and 1990, Cat’s Eye was also translated by Csonka in 2020 for Jelenkor under the title Macskaszem, thirty years after the initial publishing. While several novels have been published, Atwood’s poetry still waits to be introduced in Hungary.