The Handmaid's Tale ( Рассказ служанки)

A gripping vision of American society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale has become one of the most powerful novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to shops whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander to make her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules. Like Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-four, The Handmaids Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but also as a warning of a...A gripping vision of American society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale has become one of the most powerful novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to shops whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander to make her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules. Like Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-four, The Handmaids Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but also as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant.Fredova sluzhanka v dome zagadochnogo komandora i ego revnivoy zheny. Raz v den ona mozhet pokinut dom i otpravitsya v magazin, gde vse tsenniki i ukazateli byli zameneny na kartinki, ved zhenshchinam v respublike Galaad zapreshcheno chitat. Fredova molitsya o tom, chto ey udastsya zaberemenet ot komandora, ved v mire, gde stremitelno padaet rozhdaemost, tsennost zhenshchiny opredelyaetsya ee sposobnostyu k zachatiyu. Sluzhanok, kotorye ne mogut vypolnit svoi obyazatelstva, zhdet izgnanie v zagryaznennye radioaktivnymi otkhodami Kolonii. Fredova eshche pomnit svoyu zhizn do revolyutsii, gde u nee byl muzh, dochka i rabota. Teper zhe u nee net dazhe sobstvennogo imeni. Riskuya svoey zhiznyu, ona uznaet sekrety tekh, kto kontroliruet kazhdyy ee shagRasskaz sluzhanki eto roman-antiutopiya kanadskoy pisatelnitsy Margaret Etvud, kotoryy prinyato stavit v odin ryad s drugimi romanami-preduprezhdeniyami, takimi kak O divnyy novyy mir Oldosa KHaksli i 1984 Dzhordzha Oruella, Proizvedenie Etvud po sey den ne teryaet svoey...Fredova sluzhanka v dome zagadochnogo komandora i ego revnivoy zheny. Raz v den ona mozhet pokinut dom i otpravitsya v magazin, gde vse tsenniki i ukazateli byli zameneny na kartinki, ved zhenshchinam v respublike Galaad zapreshcheno chitat. Fredova molitsya o tom, chto ey udastsya zaberemenet ot komandora, ved v mire, gde stremitelno padaet rozhdaemost, tsennost zhenshchiny opredelyaetsya ee sposobnostyu k zachatiyu. Sluzhanok, kotorye ne mogut vypolnit svoi obyazatelstva, zhdet izgnanie v zagryaznennye radioaktivnymi otkhodami Kolonii. Fredova eshche pomnit svoyu zhizn do revolyutsii, gde u nee byl muzh, dochka i rabota. Teper zhe u nee net dazhe sobstvennogo imeni. Riskuya svoey zhiznyu, ona uznaet sekrety tekh, kto kontroliruet kazhdyy ee shagRasskaz sluzhanki eto roman-antiutopiya kanadskoy pisatelnitsy Margaret Etvud, kotoryy prinyato stavit v odin ryad s drugimi romanami-preduprezhdeniyami, takimi kak O divnyy novyy mir Oldosa KHaksli i 1984 Dzhordzha Oruella, Proizvedenie Etvud po sey den ne teryaet svoey aktualnosti.Po motivam romana byl snyat odnoimennyy serial.Kniga na angliyskom yazyke.