Kintu goodreads5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population. ![]() Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. Before The Testaments, there was The Handmaid’s Tale: an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times).The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. ![]()
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