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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1985
Pages
Pages 310

In an American theocracy where fertile women are property, a handmaid assigned to a commander's house records her erased life and the small treasons that might get her out.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

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