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The Handmaid's Tale

This chilling dystopian series depicts a ruthless totalitarian regime where women are systematically oppressed and stripped of their rights. At its heart, the narrative follows a woman striving for survival and clinging to hope in a brutal world. The saga delves into themes of subjugation, identity, and the resilience of the human spirit against unimaginable cruelty. It's a stark and thought-provoking vision of a possible future.

The Hand Maid´s Tale. The Graphic Novel
The testaments
The Handmaid's Tale

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    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...

    The Handmaid's Tale
  2. 2

    When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of 'The Handmaid's Tale,' readers had no way of telling what lay ahead. With 'The Testaments,' the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.

    The testaments
  • Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion.The Handmaid's Tale and its iconic images - the red of the Handmaids, the blue of the Wives, the looming Gileadean Eye - have been adapted into a film, an opera, a ballet, and multi-award-winning TV series.

    The Hand Maid´s Tale. The Graphic Novel