Criadas y Señoras: Tres mujeres a punto de dar un paso extraordinario, una historia con corazón y esperanza. (Grandes Novelas) (Spanish Edition)

Tres mujeres a punto de dar un paso extraordinario, una historia con corazón y esperanza. Skeeter, de veintidós años, ha regresado a su casa en Jackson, en el sur de Estados Unidos, tras terminar sus estudios en la Universidad de Mississippi. Pero como estamos en 1962, su madre no descansará hasta que no vea a su hija con una alianza en la mano. Aibileen es una criada negra. Una mujer sabia e imponente que ha criado a diecisiete niños blancos. Tras perder a su propio hijo, que murió mientras sus capataces blancos miraban hacia otro lado, siente que algo ha cambiado en su interior. Se vuelca en la educación de la pequeña niña que tiene a su cargo, aunque es consciente de que terminarán separándose con el tiempo. Minny, la mejor amiga de Aibileen, es bajita, gordita y probablemente la mujer con la lengua más larga de todo Mississippi. Cocina como nadie, pero no puede controlar sus palabras, así que pierde otro empleo. Por fin parece encontrar su sitio trabajando para una recién llegada a la ciudad que todavía no conoce su fama. A pesar de lo distintas que son entre sí, estas tres mujeres acabarán juntándose para llevar a cabo un proyecto clandestino que supondrá un riesgo para todas. ¿Y por qué? Porque se ahogan dentro de los límites que les impone su ciudad y su tiempo. Y, a veces, las barreras están para saltárselas. Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't. In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another En Jackson, Misisipí, en 1962, tres mujeres se rebelan contra un orden social injusto y los prejuicios de una pequeña ciudad