explorer / books · 1987
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 1985 by McClelland and Stewart · 324 pages
Nebula · 1987
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Synopsis
In the theocratic Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, a woman known only as Offred serves as a Handmaid, forced to bear children for the ruling elite in a society that has stripped women of all rights. Through her fragmented memories of a lost world and her harrowing present, she reveals the mechanisms of totalitarian control while secretly clinging to the hope of resistance and reunion with her family.
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Details
- Series
- The Handmaid's Tale · Book 1
- Author nationality
- Canada
- Adaptation
- The Handmaid's Tale (film and TV, 1990)
- ISBN
- 9780771008139