by Margaret Atwood · Quaderns Crema · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477275886
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«El conte de la Serventa» is the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Quaderns Crema in paperback (360 pages, in Catalan).
In the near future, the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic and totalitarian regime, controls the female body. Fertile women, called handmaids, serve only to guarantee the elite's offspring. Offred narrates her daily life between submission and the memory of a free life, showing the fragility of rights and freedoms.
It is book number 1 of the series The Handmaid's Tale, with a Catalan translation by Xavier Pàmies, originally published in 1985 and belonging to the Biblioteca Mínima collection (no. 208).
For readers of dystopias, science fiction and feminist fiction interested in social and political criticism.
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.
