Con esta impresionante adaptaci鏮 gr塻ica del cl嫳ico contempor嫕eo de Margaret Atwood, llevada a cabo con suma belleza por la artista Renee Nault, el aterrador universo de Gilead cobra vida como nunca hasta ahora. Defred es Criada en Gilead, una replica donde a las mujeres se les proh燢e trabajar, leer y entablar amistades. Sirve en el hogar del Comandante y su Esposa, y en el nuevo orden social tiene un ico cometido: una vez al mes, tumbarse boca arriba y rezar para que el Comandante la deje embarazada, porque, en una 廧oca en que apenas nacen ni隳s, Defred y las dem嫳 Criadas valen en la medida en que son capaces de engendrar. Pero Defred recuerda los a隳s previos a la instauraci鏮 de Gilead, cuando ella era una mujer independiente con un empleo, una familia y un nombre propio. Ahora, sus recuerdos y su voluntad de supervivencia se consideran actos de rebeli鏮.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon. One of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time in display-worthy hardcover: A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution--from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (The New York Times) Now a Hulu Original Series The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population.
The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions.
The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.
