Jonathan Cape

3 weeks ago | thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood

The world is full of Aunt Lydias.  There are so many marvellous creations in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, so many moments of horror and shock and – ‘oh of course it would happen that way’. So many things that look very prescient now, as the gains of the women’s movement in the 70s, 80s and 90s are slowly being rolled back in the USA.  But most of all, there are Aunt Lydias.

1 month ago | thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood

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1 month ago | thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood

Skip to main content Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1986, The Handmaid’s Tale is the dystopian novel that became a phenomenonThe Handmaid’s Tale was Atwood’s sixth novel – a chilling work of speculative fiction that masterfully examines gender, power, and resistance. The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1986 and won the first-ever Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987, and has since become a modern classic, inspiring adaptations across film, television, theatre, and ballet.

1 month ago | thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood

Skip to main content In Margaret Atwood’s feminist dystopian classic, nothing happens ‘that hasn’t already happened at some time or another’Offred is a national resource. In the Republic of Gilead her viable ovaries make her a precious commodity, and the state allows her only one function: to breed. As a Handmaid she carries no name except her Master’s, for whose barren wife she must act as a surrogate.

1 month ago | thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood

Skip to main content In Margaret Atwood’s feminist dystopian classic, nothing happens ‘that hasn’t already happened at some time or another’Offred is a national resource. In the Republic of Gilead her viable ovaries make her a precious commodity, and the state allows her only one function: to breed. As a Handmaid she carries no name except her Master’s, for whose barren wife she must act as a surrogate.