La servante ecarlate, Paperback Book, By: Margaret Atwood

The best dystopian tales are universal and timeless. The Scarlet Handmaid shines a terrifying light on contemporary America. Telerama. Faced with the drastic fall in fertility, the republic of Gilead, recently founded by religious fanatics, reduced to the rank of sexual slaves the few women still fertile. Dressed in red, Defred, a scarlet servant among others whose name has been taken away, therefore puts her body at the service of her Commander and his wife. In the evening, in her room with monastic austerity, she thinks of the time when women had the right to read, to work ... By joining an underground network, she will do everything to regain her freedom. Released in 1985, The Scarlet Handmaid is today a classic of Anglo-Saxon literature and a standard in the struggle for women's rights. If the series adapted from this masterpiece gave a face to Defred, that of Elisabeth Moss, this new translation reveals all its modernity as well as the smoothness and intelligence of Margaret Atwood. La Servant is a polysemous novel, full of literary and biblical references, funny even ... and it is up to us, the readers, to discover its many facets.