Paperback, 278 pages
Icelandic language
Published Oct. 7, 2010 by Almenna.
4 stars
(1 review)
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. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America explores a world in which oppression of women, and repression of the truth, have become justified.
Subjects
- Canadian fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, fantasy, general
- Man-woman relationships, fiction
- Fiction, dystopian