The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

In the Republic of Gilead, Offred is valued for exactly one thing, and she narrates her situation with a flatness that is somehow worse than screaming.

Before you start: Sexual violence, reproductive coercion and executions.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction

Tropes: dystopia, unreliable narrator, resistance, coming of age

311 pages · published 1985

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