Tabs & Twists
The Handmaid's Tale
In theocratic Gilead, where women have been stripped of all their rights, the testimony of Offred, who is kept alive only for her fertility.
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Subgenre
- Dystopia
- Setting / Period
- Dystopian future
- Tone
- DarkMelancholic
- Publisher
- Doğan Kitap
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- Turkish
Review
In the Republic of Gilead, founded on land that was once America, women may not read, work or even keep their own names. Offred is one of the women assigned as a "handmaid" to bear a child for an elite family.
Offred's fragmented narrative moves between her present and the old life in which she lost her daughter and her husband. Memory is both a refuge and a form of resistance for her.
Atwood depicts power's control over bodies and language with chilling realism.
