THE HANDMADE’S TALE

Set in the near-future totalitarian Republic of Gilead, The Handmaid’s Tale follows Offred, a woman forced into sexual servitude to produce children for the ruling class. Stripped of her freedom, her family, and her name, she is a “Handmaid,” valued only for her fertility in a world facing an environmental and birthrate crisis. Through Offred’s harrowing story and flashbacks to her former life, this dystopian novel explores themes of female subjugation, power, and the will to survive.