The Handmaid's Tale - Movie Tie-In

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred 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 vision of the future gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's irony, wit and astute perception.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood OC (Canada, 1939) is een van Canada's belangrijkste hedendaagse schrijvers. Ze is dichteres, romanschrijfster, literair criticus, feministe en politiek activiste. Ze krijgt zowel nationale als internationale erkenning.