书名：The Handmaids Tale使女的故事

作者：Margaret Atwood 

出版社名称：Vintage 

出版时间：2017 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9781784708238 

商品尺寸：14.4 x 3.3 x 22.2 cm 

包装：精装 

页数：336（以实物为准）

推荐理由： ★加拿大文学界的领军人物玛格丽特经典作品 ★在迷人的叙述中反覆辩证人与女人的价值 ★同名剧集《使女的故事》于第69届艾美奖上成为剧情类奖项的大赢家 ★剧集奖、女主角、女配角、导演和编剧等五项大奖★全新精装版，包装精美，收藏价值高 媒体评价："A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist" "Compulsively readable" (Daily Telegraph) "Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit" (Independent) "The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story" "Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic" (The Listener)

她，沒有名字，有的只是主人的姓氏。

她，沒有过去，当然也不会有未來。 她，不能言語，沒有自在，只能完全信奉神。 她，红色是仅有的制服；她存活的任务就是生育，生殖器官是她生存的工具。 基列共和国裡，男女阶等分明，父权主宰了这个社会的一切。 女人被严苛的控制着，无法有自主的工作，不能拥有财产，依照剩余价值被分配担任不同职务。 「使女」是其一，她们没有名字，不能阅读、与人交谈，被剥夺情与慾，禁绝容许隐密的慾望之花有盛开之机；只是长着两条腿的生育机器，职司和社会主导者大主教交合，以便繁衍下一代。 本书记录了一名在基列共和国时期担任「使女」的心情故事。她驯服在体制裡，心灵却自有主张，一步步挑战禁忌...... 记录的年代久远不可考，但情节之荒诞骇人，却熟悉莫名地叫人心惊。 Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has 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. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America explores a world in which oppression of women, and repression of the truth, have become justified.

玛格丽特·阿特伍德，是一位勤奋多产的作家，被誉为“加拿大文学女王”。迄今已有14部诗集、11部长篇小说、5部短篇小说集和3部文学评论出版，并主编了《牛津加拿大英语诗歌》《牛津加拿大英语短篇小说》等文集，此外还撰写了不少广播、电视、戏剧、儿童文学作品等。她获得过除诺贝尔文学奖之外的几乎所有的国际文学奖和不计其数的其他奖励和荣誉，并被多伦多大学等十多所国内外大学授予荣誉博士学位，享有很高的国际声誉。她的作品已被译成30多种文字。2017年，阿特伍德获卡夫卡奖和德国书业和平奖。

Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in thirty-five countries, is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, her novels include Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; The Year of the Flood; MaddAddam; and her most recent, The Heart Goes Last. She is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award, and lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson.