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Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale

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SUMMARY:
First published in 1985, The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel of such power that the reader is unable to forget its images and its forecast. With more than two million copies in print, it is Margaret Atwood’s most popular and compelling novel.Set in the near future, it describes life in what once was the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead. Reacting to social unrest, and a sharply declining birthrate, the new regime has reverted to — even gone beyond — the repressive tolerance of the original Puritans. Offred is a Handmaid who may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant because she is only valued as long as her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.
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  • José Enrique Lozano S.shared an impression4 years ago
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile
    🚀Unputdownable

    El cuento de la criada está fuera del tiempo y fuera del espacio porque puede ser en cualquier tiempo y en cualquier espacio. Margaret Atwood me hizo sufrir y me golpeó con su cruda escritura. Es una ficción que te golpea con realidad y es realidad histórica, realidad emocional y de control. Es una lectura revolucionaria que arma un mundo completo con un montón de signos y símbolos. Además de todo el valor emocional que contiene.

  • Lola Lobashared an impression7 years ago
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    💀Spooky
    🔮Hidden Depths
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    A web of misteries.

  • Мариshared an impression8 years ago
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    I have not read a book this captivating in a while. So good!

Quotes

  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained
  • Mariahas quoted6 years ago
    You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done
  • Tatiana Bunaevahas quoted6 years ago
    "Women know that instinctively. Why did they buy so many different clothes, in the old days? To trick the men into thinking they were several different women. A new one each day."

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