Book :: The Handmaid’s Tale
| By: | Margaret Atwood |
| Pages: | 311 |
| Published: | 1985 |
| Genre(s): | Dystopia |
| Science Fiction | |
| Feminism | |
| Rating: | (15) |
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In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time...
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red13x
Absolutely brilliant. Make sure you read the follow up, The Testaments after, it really helps to complete the story and fill in some background too.
Aug 23rd, 2025
Tejas Nair
The Handmaid's Tale touches upon a lot of topics with vigorous feminism but what broke my heart as if a knife tore through it was Atwood's decipherment of the current state of affairs where she does not point to a specific gender as the culprit but the idea that women are to be objectified if the world is to progress. In the novel, although majority women are oppressed, other women do enjoy a life of luxury with men, hinting that it is all in the thought. It's magically dull, pure dystopian, but still gives you a glimmer of hope thanks to its vociferously charming lead character Offred. One of my best reads of 2019. TN.
Oct 3rd, 2019
The Handmaid’s Tale appears on these lists...
48th on Books You Can't Live Without by The Guardian
53rd on 100 Novels Everyone Should Read by Telegraph
58th on Books of the Century by Waterstone
