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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Handmaid's Tale
336 pages
English language
Published 2025 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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- 979-8-217-00911-4Copied ISBN!
Tjenerindens fortælling
310 pages
Danish language
Published Nov. 6, 1990 by Lindhardt og Ringhof.
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- 978-87-7560-939-0Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
214 pages
English language
Published 2018 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-7191-6375-0Copied ISBN!
Sipurah shel shifḥah
351 pages
Hebrew language
Published 2012
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- 978-965-552-259-4Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 795893743
El cuento de la criada
284 pages
Spanish language
Published Aug. 14, 1987 by Sudamericana.
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- 978-950-07-0435-9Copied ISBN!
Shi nu de gu shi =
350 pages
Chinese language
Published Aug. 14, 2001 by Yi lin chu ban she.
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- 978-7-80657-139-2Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
Audio Cassette
Published Feb. 14, 2002 by Recorded Books.
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- 978-1-55690-216-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 18285245
Jijo no monogatari
338 pages
Japanese language
Published Aug. 14, 1990 by Shinch@osha.
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- 978-4-10-522501-8Copied ISBN!
El Cuento de La Criada
Paperback
Published Jan. 14, 1987 by Sudamericana.
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- 978-950-07-0434-2Copied ISBN!
Saga þernunnar
278 pages
Icelandic language
Published Aug. 14, 1987 by Almenna.
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