The Handmaid’s TaleMargaret Atwood
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The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

Synopsis

In the authoritarian state of Gilead, Offred is forced into a household where her reproductive capacity determines her assigned role. Memories of her former family interrupt the tightly controlled present. Her account explores surveillance, complicity and the small possibilities of resistance within a system organized around women’s subordination.