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The Handmaid's Tale

A Novel
By Margaret Atwood
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In a dystopian future ravaged by environmental disaster and war, the Republic of Gilead rises as a totalitarian regime that enforces severe social roles and enslaves fertile women as Handmaids. Offred, one such Handmaid, is stripped of her identity, family, and freedom, yet she clings to her memories and resilience. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is a powerful satire and chilling warning that explores themes of oppression, survival, and autonomy.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This novel is suited to readers interested in thought-provoking feminist fiction, dystopian narratives, and literary works that challenge social and political norms.

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First published in 1985, this is a novel of such power that the reader is unable to forget its images and its forecast. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. "A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex".--"The Washington Post Book World".

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (The New York Times) • The sixth and final season of the award-winning Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss is now streaming.

Look for The Testaments, the bestselling, award-winning sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale.

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid’s Tale is a modern classic.

Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780385490818

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 March 1998

Country: United States

Imprint: Anchor Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 202.0mm

Weight: 238g

Pages: 336

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About the Author

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade.
 
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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