Handmaid's Tale

One of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time in display-worthy hardcover: A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution—from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” ( The New York Times ). • Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband her child her freedom and even her own name Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. Like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four The