In the totalitarian theocracy of Gilead, fertile women are stripped of their names and enslaved as 'Handmaids' to bear children for the ruling class; Offred narrates her constrained daily life and the fragments of resistance and memory that survive it.
Books mentioned in The Handmaid's Tale (1)
Hard Times by Charles Dickens: “I've read a Raymond Chandler, and right now I'm halfway through Hard Times, by Charles Dickens.”
Books that mention The Handmaid's Tale (1)
Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang: “Imagine a world similar to The Handmaid's Tale”