[PDF] The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Go back to the beginning with the book that inspired the award-winning TV show. Just as important now as when Atwood wrote it, Guardian: “I support the resistance because I think there can’t be light without shadow, or rather, there can’t be a shadow without light.” Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, which used to be called the United States but is now a religious totalitarian state. She is sent to live with The Commander, Fred Waterford, and her name, Offred, means “of Fred.” She only has one job, which is to have babies. Offred will be hanged if she doesn’t agree to be a sexual slave to help repopulate a world that has been destroyed. But even a harsh government can’t kill hope and desire. As she has flashbacks to her life before the revolution, Offred must find her way through the scary world of torture and persecution in the present day and choose between two men whose love will decide her future. This scary vision of the future, thought up and written with great skill, puts Margaret Atwood at the forefront of dystopian fiction. “A great and scary story. And so strong for women,” The book Girl, Woman, Other was written by Bernardine Evaristo.