The Handmaid's Tale Series - Book 1
The Handmaid's Tale
"The Handmaid’s Tale…shares the crown with 1984 for most important speculative novel of the twentieth century.”
New York Times
Audie Award Winner for Best Fiction Narration
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
New York Times bestseller
A PBS Great American Read selection
Nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel
An Oprah’s Book Club Selection of 20 Dystopian Novels Everyone Should Read
A New York Public Library Staff Pick of Favorite Books of the Last 125 Years
Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018
Audie Award, Fiction, 2013
Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale explores a broad range of issues relating to power, gender, and religious politics. Multiple Emmy and Golden Globe award-winner Claire Danes (Temple Grandin, Homeland) gives a stirring performance of this classic in speculative fiction, one of the most powerful and widely read novels of our time.
After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred, now a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Despite the danger, Offred learns to navigate the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules in hopes of ending this oppression.
The Handmaid's Tale is part of Audible’s A-List Collection, featuring the world’s most celebrated actors narrating distinguished works of literature that each star had a hand in selecting.
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