The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwoodová 'It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge'. Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaid's, but her role is fixed, her freedom a forgotten concept. Offred remembers her old life - love, family, a job, access to the news. It has all been taken away. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire. Includes exclusive content: In The 'Backstory' you can read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel. "Compulsively readable". (Daily Telegraph). z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature od Random/Vintage naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz! Publikace: The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood. A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules. Publikace: The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood. Pochmurná vize blízké budoucnosti Spojených států amerických, které se z demokratických výšin propadly do všeobjímajících hrůz totalitního režimu. Kniha se stala předlohou pro filmové a aktuálně také pro úspěšné seriálové zpracování. Dystopická vize ukazuje blízkou budoucnost na půdě dnešních Spojených států amerických, které se proměnily v republiku Gilead a vlády se chopil klerofašistický režim, který militantně volá po návratu k tradičním hodnotám.