The Handmaid s Tale
Random House
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 Brilliantly conceived and executed this powerful evocation of twenty first century America explores a world in which oppression of women and repression of the truth have become justified Compulsively readable Daily Telegraph
