The stunning graphic novel adaptation • A must-read and collector’s item for fans of “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, available now. In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of … Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive.
Provocative, startling, prophetic, The Handmaid’s Tale has long been a global phenomenon. With this beautiful graphic novel adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s modern classic, beautifully realized by artist Renée Nault, the terrifying reality of Gilead has been brought to vivid life like never before.
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This book was eerily prophetic, predicting our own turn towards becoming a nation of a Gilead like regime. Be sure to read the epilogue. It explains much and gives us hope for the future.
I love Margaret Atwood’s writing. Her ability to take our world and skew it to a distopic future by minor modification is amazing. Offred is a grounded and haunting character.
Really? A “graphic novel” of The Handmaid’s Tale? For people who don’t have the attention span to read the real novel? Horrifying.
Fascinating what-if novel.
I did not like the book the first time I read it 20 years ago and after the series came out and there were raves about it, I read it again. STILL a NO for me.
Hauntingly prophetic
Especially in the current political climate, this book is a little too real for comfort. I can easily see this happening and in much the same way as the book lays out. Small changes add up to a huge, life-altering, new way of being.
Frightening in our current world.
Imagine your worst fears regarding an extreme male dominated society, where mysogeny and religiosity combine to render women powerless pawns who function and exist to serve self serving, egomaniacal men. This is the nightmare come true world that is the Handmaid’s Tale.
I know I’m supposed to at least like this book but I don’t. I haven’t finished it and may not finish it. The premise is good, I guess the plot is good. I just don’t like it. There’s very little about the actual writing that grabs me nor is there enough depth to the characters to grab me. Their thoughts are mundane and while the setting is original, it’s not compelling – to me.
Atwood makes a world come alive that sparks of things possible and yet feared.
This was a great read. Scary at times, sad at others. It kept me engaged thoughout. While I think this book is great, and would recommend it, I don’t subscribe to this as a foretelling of our future.
Thought provoking.
It gives you scary insight to how quickly things can turn. I read this after watching the first season of Handmaid’s tale on Hulu and am hoping for another story from this
Fantastic, frightening story.
Frightening future view, great read!
Not my cup of tea.
I never normally say this but I actually preferred the TV series for this one. I found the jumps in time in the book a bit hard to keep track of. There were times I had to make myself keep reading. However, I still thoroughly enjoyed the book and would have loved to have read it before I had watched it, as I’m sure my knowledge of the story was impacting (and they did have many differences) Recommend it!
MARGARET ATWOOD IS A WONDERFUL STORY-TELLER. READ THIS INTERESTING
BOOK AND ENJOY EVERY PAGE!
NOMY MARGALIT
I read this book many years ago after seeing the movie with Natasha Richardson. It was one of a few special novels that fueled my interested in dystopian novels.