The Handmaid's Tale
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By Margaret Atwood
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Go back to where it all began with the dystopian novel behind the award-winning TV series.
‘As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it’ Guardian
I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. 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.
Masterfully conceived and executed, this haunting vision of the future places Margaret Atwood at the forefront of dystopian fiction.
‘A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist’, Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other.
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I loved the darkness of this world and the little comfort offer had from flash backs. The wives felt similar to stepford wives as in a three some in the ceremony then going through a false birth and being given a clean bed & new baby at the end of the show.
The Chauffeur is he a spy within a spy? Who will be hurt the most!.
I cannot understand how a leading female writer and champion of women's rights helped lay down the new world's rules against her sisters....
I'm intrigued how TV second series will play out? Will the author have a role in this new extension or ghost writers?
