Club de lectura en anglès 'LitLove': The Handmaid’s Tale, de Margaret Atwood

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The Handmaid’s Tale

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She 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 in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their 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.

 

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer best known for her prose fiction and for her feminist perspective. Role reversal and new beginnings are recurrent themes in her novels, all of them centred on women seeking their relationship to the world and the individuals around them. Best known for The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), a dystopian novel set in New England in the near future, which posits a Christian fundamentalist theocratic regime in the former U.S. that arose as a response to a fertility crisis. The novel’s adaptations included a film, an opera, a ballet, and a television series.

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