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"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
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"In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown,...
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El libro de cabecera de una nueva generaci n. Ampar ndose en la coartada del terrorismo isl mico, unos pol ticos te cratas se hacen con el poder y, como primera medida, suprimen la libertad de prensa y los derechos de las mujeres. Esta trama, inquietante y oscura, que bien podr a encontrarse en cualquier obra actual, pertenece en realidad a esta novela escrita por Margaret Atwood a principios de los ochenta, en la que la afamada autora canadiense...
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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 decadas. Subo y penetro en la oscuridad del interior; o luz Cuando las puertas de la furgoneta se cerraron de golpe despues de Offred al final de The Maid's Tale, los lectores no tenian forma de saber cual seria su futuro: libertad, prision o muerte. Con la publicacion de Los Testamentos, la espera ha terminado....
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In this Orwellian dramatization, religion becomes a tool of repression and social control to force women into the roles of stay-at-home wives, domestic staff, prostitutes, or surrogate mothers. They have no rights to their bodies or property and are completely dependent upon men. Those women who have had at least one child find themselves forced into the role of breeding machine, producing children for childless couples. References to 20th-century...
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"Najgłośniejsza powieść 2019 roku już w Polsce! Margaret Atwood po ponad trzydziestu latach wraca do świata ze swojej najsłynniejszej powieści Opowieść Podręcznej. I to w jakim stylu! Za Testamenty pisarka zdobyła Nagrodę Bookera. Zawsze mówiłam "nie", gdy proszono mnie o napisanie drugiej części. Ale jako że zaczęliśmy zbliżać się do Gileadu, zamiast się od niego oddalać, ponownie to przemyślałam - powiedziała autorka...
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