The 5 books on this stack
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1986
** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford – her assigned name, Offred, means ‘of Fred’. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs. 'A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist' Bernadine Evaristo ‘As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it’ Guardian
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Yo que nunca supe de los hombres ES
Jacqueline Harpman · 2021
We only have this synopsis in Spanish.
Descubre la inquietante y desgarradora distopía posapocalíptica que arrasa en TikTok, una novela "evocadora y apasionante" según Dua Lipa. En un futuro cercano, en un planeta irreconocible, cuarenta mujeres son mantenidas en una jaula custodiada por silenciosos hombres uniformados. La más joven de ellas, la única que no recuerda cómo era el mundo antes de la catástrofe, narra este relato inquietante y se pregunta sobre lo que nos hace humanos. Mientras, va descubriendo las emociones esenciales: la nostalgia, el amor, la amistad y la muerte. Los años pasan en esa cárcel subterránea hasta que un día los guardias desaparecen, y las mujeres consiguen salir al exterior. Entonces comenzará una errancia en busca de sentido por una tierra baldía, en un mundo sin pasado ni futuro. "Un delirio que sugiere el trabajo de una Kafka femenina". Le Nouvel Observateur "Harpman dice aquí todo lo que hay que decir sobre la dignidad y la dificultad de permanecer humano frente al sufrimiento". Le Quotidien "Lo que hay en esta novela, por encima de todo, es un instinto de supervivencia que, en la extrema pobreza, se obstina en recrear y enriquecer el mundo. Absolutamente abandonadas a su suerte, las mujeres reinventan lo más antiguo y elemental de la humanidad en torno a un fuego, a un canto, a la construcción de un hogar o al duelo por alguien a quien se ha amado de verdad". Zenda "La ficción distópica solía ser popular porque permitía a los lectores identificarse con alguien que ejerce la resistencia frente a la opresión del mundo totalitario en el que viven. Las lectoras sensibles a las amenazas a los derechos reproductivos de la mujer y a la libertad sexual, unido al hecho de que el feminismo está siendo perseguido en muchas partes del mundo, han visto todo eso reflejado en el texto de Harpman". Susan Watkins, The Guardian
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Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury · 1953
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper spontaneously catches fire and burns. It is a futuristic novel describing a time when the government has ordered that all books be burned. This may seem to be ridiculous and could never be happening, but it is starting to happen in real life now, today. Now we have a president who accuses everything in the press of being "fake news". He tells his followers who constitute a near majority never to believe the news media. He has ordered the arrest and criminal prosecution of the leading law enforcement officers including the Director of the FBI and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He has accused most of his political opponents of corruption and crime. Nobody knows what is the truth and what is false any more. He says that decisions of the highest courts of the United States are almost all fake. He openly attacks and criticizes the highest judges of the Supreme Court. He says the truth is false and the false is true. The result is we the people do not know who or what to believe. All the great scientists have found that climate change is real and our time on this earth may be limited, but he says climate change is a hoax and we should ignore the works of the scientists. This is not the first time this has happened. In China, Chairman Mao declared his Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forwards. China has the oldest civilization in the world, going back to before Confucius in 551-479 BC. Yet, during the Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao ordered all the old books burned and destroyed and even ordered the people to destroy their old household furniture. I found this out myself in 2011 when I toured China after the World Memory Championships in Guangzhou China. As a book publisher, I wanted to reprint some old classical works. I was shocked to discover that no books were available dated before 1949 and few after that. Everything earlier than that had been destroyed. I am still hoping that some older Chinese books have been preserved in Taiwan. I consider a book dated 1949 to be a relatively new book. I usually do not bother with such recent books. The destruction of all books in China dated before 1949 is not reported on any website that I have found but I saw with my own eyes that all such books were gone.
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1984
George Orwell · 1956
Winston Smith is a member of the Outer Party. He works in the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting and distorting history. To escape Big Brother's tyranny, at least inside his own mind.
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