Summary
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
Award-winning novel from 1985. The action takes place in a devastated country, the imaginary theocratic Republic of Gilead, which needs to be repopulated. With this goal, women's roles are limited, they are not allowed to work or read anything, only to be maids and birthing machines. They are divided into Wives, Marthas, Aunts and Maids. The latter are rivers that are still capable of giving birth, so they are forced to be mistresses of powerful men and increase the birth rate.
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