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The Handmaid's Tale
- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 30 April 2019
- Run Time
- 11 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year at the British Book Awards 2020.
Winner of Best Audiobook (Fiction) at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.
Read by Elisabeth Moss, star of the hit Channel 4 TV series.
** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **
Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon.
Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford – her assigned name, Offred, means ‘of Fred’. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire.
As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs.
'A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist' Bernadine Evaristo
‘As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it’ Guardian
©2011 O W Toad Ltd (P)2019 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist
Bernadine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER
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Compulsively readable
Daily Telegraph
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Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit
Independent
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The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story
Angela Carter
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Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic
The Listener
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The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking aspects of this novel about totalitarian blindness...the effect is chilling
Sunday Times
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Powerful...admirable
Time Out
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It's hard to believe it is 25 years since it was first published, but its freshness, its anger and its disciplined, taut prose have grown more admirable in the intervening years... Atwood's novel was an ingenious enterprise that showed, with out hysteria, the real dangers to women of closing their eyes to patriarchal oppression
Independent on Sunday
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Turned 25 this year and...worth re-reading. As you grow, such books grow with you
The Times, Christmas round up
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Fiercely political and bleak, yet witting and wise...this novel seems ever more vital in the present day
Observer
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Details
- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 11 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 April 2019
- ISBN
- 9781473560925
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Dystopian and utopian fiction, Classic fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: politics / economics, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Feminism and feminist theory, Religious and theocratic ideologies and movements
Synopsis
Shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year at the British Book Awards 2020.Winner of Best Audiobook (Fiction) at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.Read by Elisabeth Moss, star of the hit Channel 4 TV series.** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon.Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford – her assigned name, Offred, means ‘of Fred’. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire.As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs.'A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist' Bernadine Evaristo‘As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it’ Guardian©2011 O W Toad Ltd (P)2019 Penguin Audio
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