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The Handmaid's Tale
Hardcover 240 pp
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English (United States) · Nan A. Talese
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Full color. Cover price $22.95.
Plot
Based on the story by Margaret Atwood
An instant classic when it was published in 1985, Atwood's genre-bending, dystopian story comes to life in this new, beautifully illustrated graphic novel.
The story is iconic: In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child. Stripped of her most basic freedoms, (work, property, her own name), Offred remembers a different time, not so long ago, when she was valuable for more than her viable ovaries, when she was mother to a daughter she could keep, and when she and her husband lived and loved as equals.
Darkly prescient, scathingly sarcastic, and eminently frightening, The Handmaid's Tale has only gained relevance since it was originally published, and remains one of the most powerful, widely read stories of our times.
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Publication date
March 2019
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iizquierdo has rated43/5/2024
La primera vez que lei el Cuento de la Criada me dejo algo frío, algo indiferente. Me costaba creer la verosimilitud de algo así. Ahora, retomando la historia gracias a esta adaptación al comic, con mas años a mis espaldas y otro conocimiento del mundo algo se ha removido dentro de mi al pasar las paginas con las delicadas y brutales acuarelas de Renee Nault. Asumimos los derechos como algo sólido y sin embargo quizás deberíamos ser mucho mas conscientes de lo frágiles que son.