Trending The Handmaid’s Tale

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (The New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. Look for The Testaments, the bestselling, award-winning the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale 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. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid’s Tale is a modern classic. Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood

MargaretAtwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction,poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’sEye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, TheHandmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel,The Testaments, whichwas a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 shepublished Dearly, herfirst collection of poetry for a decade.Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award forImagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize ofthe German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the DaytonLiterary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of theCompanions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as acartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives inToronto, Canada.