Name: The Handmaids Tale
SKU: 56138755
Price: 14.90 EUR
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Author: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 9781784879679

Type

Physical Book

Author

Margaret Atwood

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781784879679

The Handmaids Tale

Margaret Atwood (Author) · Vintage · Hardcover

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Synopsis "The Handmaids Tale"

A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood''s classic dystopian novel.

''As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it'' Guardian

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.

''Fiercely political, yet witting and wise...this novel seems ever more vital in the present day'' Observer

Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood (Ottawa, 1939) is one of the most prestigious writers on the international scene. A prolific author translated into more than forty languages, she has practiced all literary genres. Among her extensive output, the novels The Heart Goes Last, Alias Grace, The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, Maddaddam, and Cat's Eye stand out, as well as the short story collection Stone Mattress and the essays The Penelopiad and Payback, all published by Salamandra. She has received, among others, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Governor General's Award, the Order of Arts and Letters, the Booker Prize (on two occasions), the Montale Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Giller Prize, the National Arts Club Literary Award, the Franz Kafka International Prize, and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

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