The Handmaid's Tale

About Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985) is the defining dystopian novel of the 20th century — a speculative fiction about Offred, a handmaid in the theocratic Republic of Gilead, where fertile women are forced to bear children for the ruling class. The novel's influence has only grown since the 2017 Hulu adaptation starring Elisabeth Moss. The Testaments (2019) is a direct sequel told from three new perspectives, set 15 years after the original, and won the Booker Prize.