by Margaret Atwood · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466601832
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«El cuento de la criada» is the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Ediciones B in paperback (382 pages, in Spanish).
In the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian state that emerged from the United States, fertile women called handmaids must bear the children of the commanders. The testimony of the handmaid Offred interweaves her present of oppression with her former life in a reflection on power, freedom, and resistance.
The novel is the first part of the series «El cuento de la criada». The translation is by Elsa Mateo Blanco; its original title is «The Handmaid's Tale». It belongs to the Afluentes collection.
It will interest readers of classic dystopias such as «1984» or «Brave New World», and reading clubs; the work has been compared to both novels.
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.
