by Margaret Atwood · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781784871444
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«The Handmaid's Tale» is the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Random House UK in paperback (479 pages, in English).
In the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic regime that arose in what was the United States, women have lost all their rights. Offred, a fertile «handmaid», must fulfill a single function: to bear children for the elite. Between memories of her former life and the threat of punishment, the novel follows her struggle to hold on to hope.
First installment of the Gilead series; the work was originally published in 1985 and is part of the Vintage Classics collection.
For young and adult readers of dystopias, science fiction and feminist fiction; the publisher suggests a reading age of 12 and up.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
