The Handmaid's Tale
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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. ...
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af The Handmaid's Tale af Margaret Atwood
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. ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon.offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford – her assigned name, offred, means ‘of Fred’. She has only one function: to breed. If offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs.''A fantastic, chilling story. and so powerfully feminist'' Bernadine Evaristo‘As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it’ Guardian
Detaljer
Forlag
Vintage Classics
Udgave
0
ISBN
9780099511663
Sprog
Engelsk
Originalsprog
Sproget kan ikke bestemmes
Sider
336
Udgivelsesdato
07-10-2010
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
1713870
EAN nr.
9780099511663
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
22
Bredde (mm)
130
Længde (mm)
197
Vægt (g)
238