Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Anchor Books (1998)
ISBN: 978-038-54-9081-8
Pages: 311 pages
First Published: 1985
Literary Awards: Man Booker Prize Nominee (1986), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1986), Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel (1987), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1986), Prometheus Award Nominee for Best Novel (1987), and many more.
Sinopsis:
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable.
Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now...
I know I should do some justification by reviewing this book, see..., it was 3 stars not because it just ordinary book (hence, Man Booker AND Nebula Award Nominee along with other awards), it's actually a really bad story in a good way.... uuhmm, no, it was a very good story in a really bad way... or... aarrghh, you get the point. The idea was so disturbing, it made me creeps, that's why I can't pass 'Like It' level. For all the dystopian worlds I've ever known, this is the world I wish I would never ever EVER encountered. The harrasment was so badly systematic, massive and planned, there were no fighting chances whatsoever for women. Compairing this to Capitol's world, I preferred District 12 in a heartbeat *yeah, I made an inconsequent comparison, sorry, just saying* ;)
