Name: The Help
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Author: Kathryn Stockett
ISBN: 9780241956533

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Physical Book

Author

Kathryn Stockett

Publisher

Penguin

Synopsis "The Help "

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. --Este texto se refiere a la edición Audio CD.

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Kathryn Stockett es una escritora estadounidense nacida y criada en Jackson, Mississippi, cuya obra se distingue por su retrato de la vida en el sur de Estados Unidos y por la fuerza de sus personajes femeninos. Tras estudiar Literatura Inglesa y Escritura Creativa en la Universidad de Alabama, trabajó durante varios años en el mundo editorial en Nueva York antes de dedicarse plenamente a la ficción. Alcanzó notoriedad internacional con The Help (2009), una novela que se convirtió en un fenómeno editorial y fue traducida a numerosos idiomas.

Su trayectoria fue reconocida con el Premio Goodreads Choice a la Mejor Ficción y con el Premio SIBA al Libro del Año. En 2026 regresó a la narrativa con The Calamity Club, una extensa novela histórica ambientada en el Mississippi de la Gran Depresión, donde vuelve a explorar temas como la resiliencia, la amistad femenina y las desigualdades sociales. Su estilo combina sensibilidad, humor y una marcada atención al contexto histórico.

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