Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

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GET READY for THE TESTAMENTS, the highly anticipated SEQUEL, by reading the BESTSELLING DYSTOPIAN NOVEL n n NOW AN AWARD-WINNING TV SERIES STARRING ELISABETH MOSS n n Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. 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. n n Masterfully conceived and executed, this haunting vision of the future places Margaret Atwood at the forefront of dystopian fiction. n n 'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it...no television event has hit such a nerve ...The Handmaid's Tale is more relevant one year after the first season' Guardian n n 'Don't expect to be gripped by a more potent or involving drama this year' Telegraph n n Roman interzis, parte din colectia noastra: Carti interzise: n n Unde? - 1990 - prezent, SUA. contestat și interzis în mai multe state americane, inclusiv Florida, Texas, Missouri, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Carolina de Sud, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin și Wyoming. Motivul? - continut sexual explicit si limbaj vulgar, teme legate de sexualitate, feminism si religie, descrieri considerate „deranjante” sau „anti-crestine”. n