The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale
ISBN: 9781841593012
Publication Date: 7 September 2006

'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function- to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. . . . .