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The Handmaid's Tale

Autor Margaret Atwood
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en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 apr 2017
Before The Testaments, there was The Handmaid’s Tale: an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times).

The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population.

The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment’s calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid’s Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781328879943
ISBN-10: 1328879941
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Ecco
Locul publicării:United States

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Victor Tanasa a dat nota:

I find it very hard to write a review that will give this book the justice it deserves. Instead, I'll make a list of the things I loved about it. It's the way it made me feel, Atwood's style, Offred as a character, the way in which she views the world around her, how she slips into recollection when things are too much for her, the interactions between her and the other characters; the nuances, the ambiguity and the whole cast of characters. The nail-biting ending. I've never read anything like this. It's pretty much perfect.

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“A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex . . . Just as the world of Orwell's 1984 gripped our imaginations, so will the world of Atwood's handmaid!” —The Washington Post Book World   “The Handmaid's Tale deserves the highest praise.” —San Francisco Chronicle   “Atwood takes many trends which exist today and stretches them to their logical and chilling conclusions . . . An excellent novel about the directions our lives are taking . . . Read it while it's still allowed.” —Houston Chronicle   “Splendid.”—Newsweek

Notă biografică

Margaret Atwood, general editor, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays and graphic novels. Her latest novel was 2019's The Testaments, a co-winner of that year's Booker Prize and a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.


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In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?

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 only valued if their ovaries are viable.

Offred can remember the days 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.