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The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood.

By: Language: English Publisher: London : Vintage Classic, 2010Description: 324 sISBN:
  • 9780099511663
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.54 22
Other classification:
  • He.01
Summary: A woman's tale from the not-so-distant future, of the services she must perform in a society where she is among the few left who can bear normal children.
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Book Biblioteket HKR Skönlitteratur Roman Eng Atwood Available 11156000177855
Book Biblioteket HKR Skönlitteratur Roman Eng Atwood Available 11156000178913
Book Biblioteket HKR Skönlitteratur Roman Eng Atwood Available 11156000178919
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** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **

Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon.

Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs.

'A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist' Bernadine Evaristo

'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it' Guardian

Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1986

A woman's tale from the not-so-distant future, of the services she must perform in a society where she is among the few left who can bear normal children.