book cover of The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Help

Novel, Historical novel by Kathryn Stockett

Blurb

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure.

Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...

First Published

2009

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Raquel

Raquel

Criadas y Señoras es una historia que engancha. Al principio no pensé que fuese a gustarme tanto y resultó que me equivoqué. ¡Pero que gran equivocación! Los tres puntos de vista, las tres narraciones, la historia común, el realismo de la situación y de los personajes... Skeeter está especialmente bien construida. Mientras que Minny es la fiera, la fuerza y Aibileen la concordia, la paciencia y la figura materna, Skeeter es el nervio, la indecisión de la juventud. la dualidad en estado puro. Puede parecer débil pero lucha por sus sueños como nadie.

0 Responses posted in January
mettbroetchen

Mettbroetchen

Habe es auf englisch gelesen und ziemlich verschlungen. Es ist spannend geschrieben, teilweise in Slang, in den man sich etwas reinlesen muss, aber wirklich interessant und aufrüttelnd. Ich habe es schon zweimal verschenkt!

0 Responses posted in September
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