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The Handmaid's Tale Author: [Canada] Margaret Atwood Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Top 10 Popular Women's Literature Books
The Handmaid's Tale Author: [Canada] Margaret Atwood Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Top 10 Popular Women's Literature Books
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Offred is a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She is one of the few fertile women in the country and is assigned to the families of commanders without offspring to help them give birth to children. Like other women in the country, she has no freedom of movement and is deprived of the right to property, work and reading. Except for certain special days, the handmaids are only allowed to go shopping together once a day, and their every move is monitored by the "Eye". What's worse is that in this crazy world, humans not only have to face problems such as ecological degradation and economic crisis, but also fall into a chaotic situation of mutual hostility, class differentiation and wanton killing. Women are not the only oppressed objects in this catastrophe, everyone is a victim in this seemingly absurd world.
About the Author
Margaret Atwood, known as the "Queen of Canadian Literature", is a diligent and prolific writer and one of the few poets in the 20th century Canadian literary world who enjoys international reputation. She currently lives in Toronto.
Since the mid-1960s, Atwood has given critics no chance to forget her with her enduring and vigorous creativity. She has won most of the major international literary awards except the Nobel Prize in Literature, and has been awarded honorary doctorates by more than a dozen institutions including the University of Toronto. Her works have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2017, Atwood won the Kafka Prize and the German Book Industry Peace Prize.
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