The Handmaid's Tale

di Margaret Atwood

Paperback, 324 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 13 Novembre 1987 da Virago.

ISBN:: 978-1-85381-174-6
Numero OCLC:: 55563424

(4 recensioni)

The Republic of Gilead allows Offred only one function; to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radioation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire--neigher Offred's nor that of the two men on whom her future hangs... --back cover

45 edizioni

Magnesium ha recensito La servante écarlate di Margaret Atwood (Pavillons)

Not so speculative fiction

5 stelle

I was warned this book is not a fun one. Indeed it is not.

You get to see the omnipresent fear and violence of a patriarchal surveillance state. You get to see how it got there, little by little, and how it got accepted. The disturbing part is that it is very much believable...

I hadn't seen since Orwell's "1984" the effect of a totalitarian system on an individual so well described, especially at an individual level. You get to see how a single mind resists or breaks when faced with such overwhelming brutal and oppressive environment.

It is definitely worth reading, especially when you keep in mind the fact that Atwood has been censored in several US states.