The Handmaid's Tale: The iconic Sunday Times bestseller that inspired the hit TV series (The handmaid's tale, 1) - Softcover

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Atwood, Margaret

 
9781784874872: The Handmaid's Tale: The iconic Sunday Times bestseller that inspired the hit TV series (The handmaid's tale, 1)
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ISBN 10: 1784874876 ISBN 13: 9781784874872
Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2018

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** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **

Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon.

Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. 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.

'A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist' Bernadine Evaristo

‘Game-changing… gains more significance with each passing year’ Dua Lipa

‘As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it’ Guardian

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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade, and in 2022 Burning Questions, a collection of essays, was a Sunday Times bestseller.

Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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DISCOVER the BESTSELLING DYSTOPIAN NOVEL behind the AWARD-WINNING TV SERIES

Second season now airing on Channel 4 starring Elisabeth Moss



With a new introduction from Margaret Atwood



'I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.'



Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known 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.



'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it...no television event has hit such a nerve ...The Handmaid's Tale is more relevant one year after the first season' - Guardian



'Don't expect to be gripped by a more potent or involving drama this year' - Telegraph

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Verlag
Vintage Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1784874876
ISBN 13 
9781784874872
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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