The Handmaid’s Tale

By Margaret Atwood

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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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ISBN: 978-1784873189
Themes: realistic fiction dystopian inequality Politics Society Feminism

Preface

Offred is a Handmaid living in what once was America and is now known as The Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed.

Those in charge expect them to give themselves over to the new regime and to forget their former lives but Offred is finding it hard and finds solace in small rebellions.

She desperately seeks someone to share in her views but who can she trust?