The Handmaid's Tale is a radical departure for Margaret Atwood. Set in the near future, in a locale that oddly resembles Cambridge, Massachusetts, it describes life in what was once the United States. Now, however, it has become the Republic of Gilead, a monolithic theocracy that has reacted to social …
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The Handmaid's Tale is a radical departure for Margaret Atwood. Set in the near future, in a locale that oddly resembles Cambridge, Massachusetts, it describes life in what was once the United States. Now, however, it has become the Republic of Gilead, a monolithic theocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans, and has gone far beyond them. This regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for women, and for men as well.
The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate "Handmaids" under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions.
The Handmaid's Tale is A Clockwork Orange as seen by women: unexpected, funny, horrifying, and altogether convincing. the book is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning. this is Atwood in top form.
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La servante écarlate
pocket book, 346 pages
French language
Published July 6, 2006 by J'AI LU.
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- 978-2-290-34710-2Copied ISBN!
El conte de la serventa
Paperback, 360 pages
Català language
Published July 5, 2018 by Quaderns Crema.
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- 978-84-7727-588-6Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 39320312
El cuento de la criada
Paperback, 382 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 6, 2001 by Ediciones B.
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- 978-84-666-0183-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 433940215
La servante écarlate
Paperback, 523 pages
French language
Published Nov. 6, 2017 by Pavillons Poche.
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- 978-2-221-20333-0Copied ISBN!
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El cuento de la criada
Paperback, 412 pages
Spanish language
Published Aug. 14, 2016 by Salamandra.
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- 978-84-9838-801-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1022105733
Příběh služebnice
Hardcover, 348 pages
Czech language
Published 2017 by Argo.
- ISBN:
- 978-80-257-2298-5Copied ISBN!
使女的故事: The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 392 pages
chinese language
Published by 上海译文出版社.
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- 978-7-5327-7633-7Copied ISBN!
La Servante écarlate
Paperback, 362 pages
French language
Published July 6, 1987 by Éditions R. Laffont.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-221-05238-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 18643757
使女的故事: The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 355 pages
chinese language
Published by 上海译文出版社.
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- 978-7-5327-8536-0Copied ISBN!
El cuento de la criada
Paperback, 284 pages
Spanish language
Published Jan. 1, 1987 by Editorial Seix Barral.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-322-0563-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 434296996
Рассказ служанки
Hardcover, 414 pages
Russian language
Published Nov. 6, 2006 by "ĖKSMO".
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- 978-5-699-18376-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 76786267
Cuento de la Criada / the Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 416 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 6, 2021 by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (USA) LLC.
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- 978-84-18173-01-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1376709411
Il racconto dell'Ancella
Paperback, 329 pages
Italian language
Published Nov. 13, 2004 by Ponte alle Grazie.
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- 978-88-7928-699-2Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
368 pages
English language
Published Dec. 15, 2011 by McClelland & Stewart.
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- 978-0-7710-0879-5Copied ISBN!
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- 49982302
El cuento de la criada / The Handmaid's Tale
Hardcover, 336 pages
Spanish language
Published July 21, 2020 by Salamandra Graphic.
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- 978-84-16131-53-2Copied ISBN!
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