The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, quasi-Christian, totalitarian state, known as Gilead. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, who is forcibly assigned to produce children for the ruling class of men. In 2019, a sequel...