The Handmaid's Tale - BookWyrm.it

Brossura, 479 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 06 Luglio 2016 da VINTAGE.

ISBN:: 978-1-78487-144-4

(2 recensioni)

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 Handmaids, 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.

BACKSTORY: Read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel

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Lasairiona ha recensito The Handmaid's Tale di Margaret Atwood

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I read the Handmaid's Tale yesterday, finally. I'm disappointed. I did not like the writing style at all, there was no real story, just descriptions. And then it just ended. No conclusion or anything.

My best guess it's because the TV show was so intense and well made (at least the earlier seasons), and the book was... Not? Episodes would stay with me for days, but I'm struggling to recall the book.

Maybe the book is supposed to be unsatisfying to go with the theme. Nothing much happened after Gilead was created, every day just kinda goes by. Sure there was some torture and death, but... Eh.

Maybe I was expecting too much after all the praise it got. It's my first Atwood book, and way way outside of my usual genre (fantasy, scifi, horror).

Andrea Bruno

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30 Luglio 2017