The Handmaid's Tale

ISBN: 9780307264602

出版社: Everyman's Library

出版年: 2006-10-17

页数: 392

定价: USD 25.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read 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 markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes 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 Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant.

作者简介

玛格丽特·阿特伍德（1939— ）是当代国际文坛上最负盛名的加拿大作家，以小说创作成就为最，同时也是出色的诗人和文学评论家。她的创作以女性主义和神话主题闻名。她已出版十四部长篇小说、十二部诗集以及多部短篇小说集和文学评论集。她的作品已被译成二十多种文字在约三十个国家出版。其中诗集《圆圈游戏》和小说《使女的故事》先后获加拿大总督文学奖，《盲刺客》获英国布克奖。

陈小慰，女，浙江宁波人，福州大学外国语学院院长、教授，兼任中国翻译协会理事、福建省翻译协会副会长等职。主要研究方向：翻译理论与实践、加拿大文学、商务英语。先后出版著译十余部，发表论文四十余篇。

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