The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale, Book 1
by Margaret Atwood
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“@zunpapy Aw thank you! Book recs: Kafka on the Shore, Handmaid's Tale, Tipping Point | Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale over 30 years ago now, but it is a book that has never stopped fascinating readers because it articulates so vividly what it feels like for a woman to lose power over her own body.”
Source →“@zunpapy Aw thank you! Book recs: Kafka on the Shore, Handmaid's Tale, Tipping Point | Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale over 30 years ago now, but it is a book that has never stopped fascinating readers because it articulates so vividly what it feels like for a woman to lose power over her own body.”
Source →Recommended by 4 notable people, including Emma Watson and Daniel Pink
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Thought Provoking, About Canada, and Fiction.
Before The Testaments, there was The Handmaids Tale: an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction (New York Times).The Handmaids Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was...
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Thought Provoking, About Canada, and Fiction.
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Daniel Pink
“@zunpapy Aw thank you! Book recs: Kafka on the Shore, Handmaid's Tale, Tipping Point | Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale over 30 years ago now, but it is a book that has never stopped fascinating readers because it articulates so vividly what it feels like for a woman to lose power over her own body.”
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