# The Handmaid's Tale

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- Book: [The Handmaid's Tale](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-atwood/the-handmaids-tale) ([The Handmaid's Tale.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-atwood/the-handmaids-tale.md))
- Authors: [Margaret Atwood](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-atwood)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-4159-301-2
- Pages: 392
- Published: 2006-09-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. . . . .