by Margaret Atwood · RANDOM HOUSE UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099740919
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«The Handmaid's Tale» is Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, published by Random House UK in paperback (325 pages, in English).
In the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic state born from the United States, Offred is a handmaid forced to sleep with her Commander to conceive; deviating means death. Between flashbacks of her former life and her present of surveillance, the novel portrays memory, desire, and resistance against oppression.
First instalment of the Gilead series. Originally published in 1985, this English edition is from 1996 and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Suitable for readers of dystopia, science fiction, and feminist fiction, and for book clubs.
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.
