Book description
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has 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. Margaret Atwood is
Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include
The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily
Harm, The Handmaid's Tale
(winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the
Governor-General's Award, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made in a
major film). Cat's Eye
(also shortlisted for the Booker Prize) The Robber Bride
and Alias Grace
. Finally, The Blind Assassin
won the Booker Prize in 2000. She lives in Toronto with the writer
Graeme Gibson and their daughter.
