Mujer al borde del tiempo

Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy, is one of the most acclaimed novels of its genre. It is often compared to other feminist fantasies of the 1970s, such as Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, or Margaret Atwood's The Tale of the Maid. A classic of speculative fiction that is finally translated into Spanish, forty years after its publication.A Chicana woman, Connie Ramos, has been unjustly imprisoned in a mental institution in New York. The authorities consider her a danger to herself and others, and even her family has stopped supporting her. But Connie has a secret, a way to escape the confines of her cell: she can see the future. This novel is a transformative vision of two futures? and how one or the other can become a reality. On the one hand, a time of racial and sexual equity, of environmental dignity, a time in which it is possible to achieve unprecedented personal fulfillment, where everyone participates by lot in government and education is communal. On the other hand, Connie also witnesses another possibility with a very different result: a grotesque exploitation society in which the borders between people and merchandise have been permanently blurred. As heartbreaking as it is prophetic, this landmark novel is aimed today at a new generation for whom these options weigh more than ever.