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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Рассказ Служанки
378 pages
Russian language
Published Nov. 6, 2016 by Izdatelʹstvo "Ė".
- ISBN:
- 978-5-699-90956-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 960850886
Оповідь служниці
Paperback, 272 pages
Ukrainian language
Published 2017 by Клуб Сімейного Дозвілля.
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- 978-617-12-4088-9Copied ISBN!
Der Report der Magd.
Paperback, 412 pages
German language
Published May 1, 1998 by btb.
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- 978-3-442-72299-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 75830874
The Handmaid's Tale
Epub
English language
Published Aug. 14, 1986 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-547-34566-6Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 324 pages
English language
Published Nov. 6, 1987 by Virago Press Ltd.
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- 978-0-86068-866-2Copied ISBN!
O Conto da Aia
Paperback, 368 pages
Portuguese language
Published Aug. 14, 2017 by Rocco.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-325-2066-1Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback
Published March 22, 1989 by Klett Sprachen GmbH.
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- 978-3-12-577692-0Copied ISBN!
Il racconto dell'ancella
Paperback
Published June 1, 2017 by Ponte alle Grazie.
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- 978-88-6833-742-1Copied ISBN!
O CONTO DA AIA edicao capa dura
Hardcover
Published Nov. 18, 2019
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- 978-65-5532-094-7Copied ISBN!
Opowieść podręcznej
368 pages
Polish language
Published Nov. 6, 2017 by Wielka Litera.
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- 978-83-8032-171-7Copied ISBN!
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