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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
2003
brothelsCanadian authorsCanadian fantasy fictionCanadian fiction (fictional works by one author)Christian fundamentalism
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The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state, known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the group known as "handmaids", who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders" — the ruling class of men in Gilead. The novel explores themes of subjugat…
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