by Margaret Atwood · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781784874872
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«The Handmaid's Tale» is the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Random House UK in paperback (320 pages, in English).
In the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian state established in the United States, fertility has collapsed and fertile women are forced to serve as handmaids to the Commanders. Offred narrates her subjugated life in the household of Fred Waterford while recalling her free past. A story about resistance, hope and desire in the face of absolute power.
First installment of the Gilead series. The novel was originally published in 1985; this English edition is from 2018.
Aimed at readers of dystopias and science fiction, and especially those seeking modern classics with a feminist and political perspective.
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.
