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Loading... The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)by Margaret Atwood
Vaikka Atwoodin romaani on jo vuodelta 1985, teos tuntuu yhä tuoreelta ja ajankohtaiselta: klassikkoainesta. Sijoittuu tulevaisuuteen, jossa USA:sta on tullut puritaaninen teokratia. Siinä naisilta on viety oikeudet elämään kodin ulkopuolella, ja heidät on jaettu tiukkarajaisiin kasteihin. Harvalukuisiksi käyneet hedelmälliset naiset palvelevat "orjattarina", joiden tehtävänä on synnyttää isännilleen lapsia. Kiehtova ja karmea tarina.  TarjaRi | May 16, 2013 |  This is a strange but thought provoking book. (  ) ABShepherd | May 15, 2013 | I'm only a third through so far, but it's boring me to an incredible level. I've seen books can that merge flashbacks seamlessly with the main story. I've seen books that can artistically switch between present and past tense in a way that heightens the story. This has failed in both those respects to me. The main character isn't interesting or endearing to me. Nick is relatively intriguing, but Luke? Not so much. I have no desire to know (or care) what happened to this woman or her family, or what will become of her. Yet, I'll still trudge through it to the end and hope that something miraculously happens to make this book interesting. benuathanasia | May 11, 2013 | HOLY CRAP. (  ) Msmydaisy | May 4, 2013 | Excellent. She has such a distinctive style. One could write a book about this book. She may be the best dystopia author ever. ( ) Yona | May 2, 2013 |
 As a cautionary tale, Atwood's novel lacks the direct, chilling plausibility of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World. It warns against too much: heedless sex, excessive morality, chemical and nuclear pollution. All of these may be worthwhile targets, but such a future seems more complicated than dramatic. But Offred's narrative is fascinating in a way that transcends tense and time: the record of an observant soul struggling against a harsh, mysterious world.  How sad for postfeminists that one does not feel for Offred-June half as much as one did for Winston Smith, no hero either but at any rate imaginable. It seems harsh to say again of a poet's novel - so hard to put down, in part so striking - that it lacks imagination, but that, I fear, is the problem.  It's a bleak world that Margaret Atwood opens up for us in her new novel, ''The Handmaid's Tale'' - how bleak and even terrifying we will not fully realize until the story's final pages. But the sensibility through which we view this world is infinitely rich and abundant. And that's why Miss Atwood has succeeded with her anti-Utopian novel where most practitioners of this Orwellian genre have tended to fail. Is contained inHas as a studyHas as a student's study guide
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"This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L.Doctorow.… (more)
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