![]() ![]() ![]() Review Quotes A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex. Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid's Tale is a modern classic. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. ![]() ![]() Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead's commanders. 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. In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, available now. Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. "A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex".-"The Washington Post Book World".īook Synopsis #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). It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. About the Book First published in 1985, this is a novel of such power that the reader is unable to forget its images and its forecast. ![]()
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