The Handmaid"s Tale

The scandalous romance of the Berechovskaya Prize laureate, on a par with "about the wondrous new world" O. Khaksli and "1984" J. Relap, who became a classic of modern anti -topia. In the marginal new world, Margaret Evwood woman does not have the right to own property, work, love, read, write . She can"t run in the morning, arrange picnics and parties. She is forbidden to marry again. She was left to only one role - maid. Once a day, she can go beyond shopping, but not to talk nor remember her. Once a month she meets with her owner, commandman, and prays to make a healthy child from their coitics. Indeed, in the marvelous new world of the won Christian fundamentalism of the maid - just a vessel for reproduction ... "`The story of the maid" is a convincing panorama of the future, which can begin tomorrow