by Margaret Atwood · Ediciones Salamandra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498388015
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«El cuento de la criada» is the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Ediciones Salamandra in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
In the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic regime after a severe birth-rate crisis, fertile women are forced to conceive children for the Commanders. Offred, one of them, faces the loss of her identity, her family and her freedom while clinging to memories. The novel addresses religious fanaticism and the control of the female body.
First instalment of the literary series The Handmaid's Tale. Translation by Elsa Mateo Blanco and Enrique de Hériz; originally published as The Handmaid's Tale in 1985.
For readers of dystopias and for those who want to discover the novel on which the television series is based.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
