El cuento de la criada / The Handmaid's Tale
Con esta impresionante adaptación gráfica del clásico contemporáneo 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 república donde a las mujeres se les prohíbe trabajar, leer y entablar amistades. Sirve en el hogar del Comandante y su Esposa, y en el nuevo orden social tiene un único cometido: una vez al mes, tumbarse boca arriba y rezar para que el Comandante la deje embarazada, porque, en una época en que apenas nacen niños, Defred y las demás Criadas valen en la medida en que son capaces de engendrar. Pero Defred recuerda los años previos a la instauración 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 rebelión.

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.
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El cuento de la criada / The Handmaid's Tale
Con esta impresionante adaptación gráfica del clásico contemporáneo 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 república donde a las mujeres se les prohíbe trabajar, leer y entablar amistades. Sirve en el hogar del Comandante y su Esposa, y en el nuevo orden social tiene un único cometido: una vez al mes, tumbarse boca arriba y rezar para que el Comandante la deje embarazada, porque, en una época en que apenas nacen niños, Defred y las demás Criadas valen en la medida en que son capaces de engendrar. Pero Defred recuerda los años previos a la instauración 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 rebelión.

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.
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El cuento de la criada / The Handmaid's Tale

El cuento de la criada / The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood
El cuento de la criada / The Handmaid's Tale

El cuento de la criada / The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

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Con esta impresionante adaptación gráfica del clásico contemporáneo 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 república donde a las mujeres se les prohíbe trabajar, leer y entablar amistades. Sirve en el hogar del Comandante y su Esposa, y en el nuevo orden social tiene un único cometido: una vez al mes, tumbarse boca arriba y rezar para que el Comandante la deje embarazada, porque, en una época en que apenas nacen niños, Defred y las demás Criadas valen en la medida en que son capaces de engendrar. Pero Defred recuerda los años previos a la instauración 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 rebelión.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788419981066
Publisher: PRH Grupo Editorial
Publication date: 08/26/2025
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.34(w) x 9.28(h) x 0.59(d)
Language: Spanish

About the Author

About The Author
Margaret Atwood (Ottawa, 1939) es una de las escritoras más prestigiosas del panorama internacional. Autora prolífica traducida a más de cuarenta idiomas, ha practicado todos los géneros literarios. Entre su amplia producción destacan las novelas Por último, el corazón, Alias Grace, El cuento de la criada, Los testamentos, Oryx y Crake, El año del Diluvio, Maddaddam, Ojo de gato y El asesino ciego, la colección de relatos Nueve cuentos malvados y los ensayos Penélope y las doce criadas y Cuestiones candentes, todos ellos publicados por Salamandra. Ha recibido, entre otros, el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, el Governor General's Award, la Orden de las Artes y las Letras, el Premio Booker (en dos ocasiones), el Premio Montale, el Premio Nelly Sachs, el Premio Giller, el Premio Literario del National Arts Club, el Premio Internacional Franz Kafka y el Premio de la Paz del Gremio de Libreros Alemanes.

Hometown:

Toronto, Ontario

Date of Birth:

November 18, 1939

Place of Birth:

Ottawa, Ontario

Education:

B.A., University of Toronto, 1961; M.A. Radcliffe, 1962; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1967
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