An edition of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

El cuento de la criada

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An edition of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

El cuento de la criada

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The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state, known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the group known as "handmaids", who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders" — the ruling class of men in Gilead.

The novel explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society, loss of female agency and individuality, and the various means by which they resist and attempt to gain individuality and independence.

The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award.



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Publisher
Sudamericana
Language
Spanish
Pages
284

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Translation of: The handmaid's tale.

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Buenos Aires
Series
Narrativas contemporáneas

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Pagination
284 p. ;
Number of pages
284

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OL22899332M
ISBN 10
9500704358

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