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1) Vox
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English
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Marginalized in a near-future America where the government limits women to no more than one hundred spoken words daily before outlawing women's education and employment altogether, a former doctor resolves to be heard for the sake of her daughter.
On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her. This is just...
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Narrativa Salamandra
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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En esta brillante secuela de The Maid's Tale, la aclamada autora Margaret Atwood responde las preguntas que han cautivado a los lectores durante décadas. Subo y penetro en la oscuridad del interior; o luz Cuando las puertas de la furgoneta se cerraron de golpe después de Offred al final de The Maid's Tale, los lectores no tenían forma de saber cuál sería su futuro: libertad, prisión o muerte. Con la publicación de Los Testamentos, la espera...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Salamandra
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
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Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, ecause in an age of declining births, Offred and...
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Told in two parts, each by a South Asian migrant to Australia, this novel explores racism, misogyny and ageism--three scary monsters--and its reversible format enacts the disorientation that migrants experience when changing countries changes the stories of their lives. Lili's family migrated to Australia from Asia when she was a teenager. Now, in the 1980s, she's teaching in the south of France. She makes friends, observes the treatment handed out...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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When Esther Thorel, wife of a master silk weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel, she thinks she is doing God's will, but her good deed is not returned. Sara quickly realizes the Thorel household is built on hypocrisy and lies and soon tires of the drudgery of life as Esther's new lady's maid. As the two women's relationship becomes increasingly fractious, Sara resolves to find out what it is that so preoccupies her mistress. Esther has long yearned...
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