Hekayat Al Jareyah | Margaret Atwood

A frightening vision of society that has been radically transformed by a radical political and religious revolution. "The Handmaid's Tale" has become one of the world's most widely read novels dealing with the present and its poignant issues.

Offred is a maid in the Republic of Gilead, who serves in the house of the mysterious "President" and his temperamental wife. She goes out once a day to the markets, where the pictures are replaced by all the written signs. Women in Gilead are forbidden to read. She must pray that the president will make her pregnant, for in her time the birth rates were so low that the presence of children in the homes became a rarity, and thus the value of the woman resided in her ability to become pregnant, and her failure meant sending her to the colonies to clean up the radioactive waste. Offred remembers the times she lived with her husband and daughter, and at her job, before the revolution robbed her of her real name.
A novel that ranks among George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, it has not only made its mark in dystopian literature. Rather, it was a warning of a possible future, and we now feel the shiver of its coldness.