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# The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” ( The New York Times ) • The sixth and final season of the award-winning Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss is now streaming Look for The Testaments , the bestselling, award-winning sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid’s Tale is a modern classic. Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood

Review: (2026–53rd Book) Forty years after publication, this novel feels more relevant than ever. - Offred serves as a Handmaid in the household of a Commander in the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic regime that has replaced the former United States. Stripped of her freedom and separated from her husband, Luke, and their young daughter, her sole purpose is now to bear the Commander's child... ------------ Published in 1985 by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood, this work of speculative fiction imagines a society in which women in the former United States have been systematically deprived of their rights, freedoms, and property. The novel was adapted into the Hulu television series The Handmaid's Tale, which ran for six seasons and became a major success. Having watched the entire series, I was deeply impressed by its portrayal of a determined heroine struggling from within to undermine an oppressive dystopian regime. The original novel, however, covers only a small portion of the story depicted in the series, extending little beyond the material adapted in the early episodes of the first season. More importantly, it takes the form of Offred's first-person testimony—part confession, part memoir. As a result, Atwood never fully explains the political machinery or economic structure of Gilead. Readers see only the narrow slice of society visible to Offred as she navigates a world in which every aspect of her life is tightly controlled. Where the television adaptation is filled with dramatic action and vivid imagery, the novel is remarkably restrained. We never witness Gilead beginning to collapse, nor do we see Offred's resistance develop into anything substantial. If anything, this restraint reinforces the sense that there is no clear path to salvation in Offred's world. The most significant departure from the television series comes near the end of the novel, where the narrative shifts to what appears to be an academic conference held in the year 2195. Nearly two centuries have passed since Offred's time, and her recorded testimony is now being examined as a historical artifact. Although the text never explicitly reveals Offred's fate or details what became of Gilead during those intervening years, it offers subtle hints that history has moved on. In those hints, readers may find a measure of reassurance. An interview with Margaret Atwood appears at the end of the book. In it, she notes that when she wrote the novel in 1985, one of the regimes she had in mind as an example of a state that subjugates women was post-revolutionary Iran. In the forty years since the novel's publication, the world has witnessed the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, Boko Haram's mass abduction of schoolgirls in Nigeria, the attempted murder of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan, and countless other acts aimed at excluding women from public life. At the same time, political and religious currents that bear an unsettling resemblance to Gilead's ideology have gained influence within parts of the American conservative movement. Far from diminishing with time, the novel's social relevance seems only to have grown. One passage struck me particularly as a Japanese reader. At one point, a group of Japanese tourists visits Gilead and, through an interpreter, asks the Handmaids, "Are you happy?" It is a painfully oblivious question. Needless to say, Offred has no way of expressing her true feelings. The scene reminded me of Japanese tourists visiting North Korea and asking an ordinary citizen the same question. As I read, I found myself wincing at the naivety of it. Perhaps Atwood, too, had noticed Japan's reputation for political detachment. Whatever the case, the episode remains one of the novel's most memorable moments.
Review: Interesting - Knew nothing of this book before picking it up. The author did a good job of creating a world. This is sort of the female author version of 1984.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Amazon 売れ筋ランキング | 洋書 - 7,021位 ( 洋書の売れ筋ランキングを見る ) Political Fiction - 33位 Censorship & Politics - 71位 Science Fiction (洋書) - 177位 |
| おすすめ度 | 5つ星のうち4.3 168,454 レビュー |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (2026–53rd Book) Forty years after publication, this novel feels more relevant than ever.
*by A***ー on 2026年7月31日に日本でレビュー済み*

Offred serves as a Handmaid in the household of a Commander in the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic regime that has replaced the former United States. Stripped of her freedom and separated from her husband, Luke, and their young daughter, her sole purpose is now to bear the Commander's child... ------------ Published in 1985 by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood, this work of speculative fiction imagines a society in which women in the former United States have been systematically deprived of their rights, freedoms, and property. The novel was adapted into the Hulu television series The Handmaid's Tale, which ran for six seasons and became a major success. Having watched the entire series, I was deeply impressed by its portrayal of a determined heroine struggling from within to undermine an oppressive dystopian regime. The original novel, however, covers only a small portion of the story depicted in the series, extending little beyond the material adapted in the early episodes of the first season. More importantly, it takes the form of Offred's first-person testimony—part confession, part memoir. As a result, Atwood never fully explains the political machinery or economic structure of Gilead. Readers see only the narrow slice of society visible to Offred as she navigates a world in which every aspect of her life is tightly controlled. Where the television adaptation is filled with dramatic action and vivid imagery, the novel is remarkably restrained. We never witness Gilead beginning to collapse, nor do we see Offred's resistance develop into anything substantial. If anything, this restraint reinforces the sense that there is no clear path to salvation in Offred's world. The most significant departure from the television series comes near the end of the novel, where the narrative shifts to what appears to be an academic conference held in the year 2195. Nearly two centuries have passed since Offred's time, and her recorded testimony is now being examined as a historical artifact. Although the text never explicitly reveals Offred's fate or details what became of Gilead during those intervening years, it offers subtle hints that history has moved on. In those hints, readers may find a measure of reassurance. An interview with Margaret Atwood appears at the end of the book. In it, she notes that when she wrote the novel in 1985, one of the regimes she had in mind as an example of a state that subjugates women was post-revolutionary Iran. In the forty years since the novel's publication, the world has witnessed the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, Boko Haram's mass abduction of schoolgirls in Nigeria, the attempted murder of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan, and countless other acts aimed at excluding women from public life. At the same time, political and religious currents that bear an unsettling resemblance to Gilead's ideology have gained influence within parts of the American conservative movement. Far from diminishing with time, the novel's social relevance seems only to have grown. One passage struck me particularly as a Japanese reader. At one point, a group of Japanese tourists visits Gilead and, through an interpreter, asks the Handmaids, "Are you happy?" It is a painfully oblivious question. Needless to say, Offred has no way of expressing her true feelings. The scene reminded me of Japanese tourists visiting North Korea and asking an ordinary citizen the same question. As I read, I found myself wincing at the naivety of it. Perhaps Atwood, too, had noticed Japan's reputation for political detachment. Whatever the case, the episode remains one of the novel's most memorable moments.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting
*by J***K on 2014年1月8日に日本でレビュー済み*

Knew nothing of this book before picking it up. The author did a good job of creating a world. This is sort of the female author version of 1984.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 叙述の不自然さの理由が最後にわかる！
*by 伊***ろ on 2013年11月13日に日本でレビュー済み*

ペーパーバック: 320ページ Anchor (1998/3/16) ISBN-10: 038549081X のレビュー 読む前にひとつ注意。カバーのあらすじ（のようなもの）は読まないこと。徐々に明らかになっていく事実をバラしているし、勝手な解釈が混じっている。 ブッカー賞候補になった作品であり、カナダを代表する現代作家、SF作家。詩や児童向けの作品もあるそうだ。 ブッカー賞をとるような作品には、非常に難渋なものと、英語自体は易しいものがあるようだが、この作品は中間ぐらいだろうか。すらすら読めるようで、詩的な表現やすぐに意味を取りにくい表現が随所に出てくる。 表現の難しさよりも、最初に気づくのが、語り手が現在形で話をすすめることだろう。その現在形の枠組みの中に、過去形で回想が挟まれる。 さらに、会話が直接話法で引用符なしで書かれている。これも、最初は戸惑った。現在のことかと思って読み進むと、回想シーンの会話文だったりして。 小説、とくにSFのテクニックとしては当然のことであるが、基本的な情報がなかなか明らかにされない。物語の場所と時代、語り手の年齢など、もう少し早めに開示してもよかったのでは。最後まで曖昧にされている部分もあり、最終章でなぜ隠されていたのかが読者に暗示される。もちろん、最終章で書かれていることが、客観的事実であるという保証はないけれども。 wizened, a susurration, shanghai, などめったに見ない単語が出てくるが、これも最終章で明らかにされることの結果だろうか？ 以上の文章構成や小説のテクニックは無視しても、精緻に構成されたディストピア物語として楽しめると思う。もちろん、あらゆる未来物にいえることだが、描かれる社会の構造が、ちょっとおかしい、かみ合わないと思われる部分もある。そうした矛盾点や撞着を楽しむのも、読書の楽しみだろう。 フェミニストの見方としては、当然、語り手さえも批判的に（加害者として）捉えるべきなのかもしれない。言っちゃ悪いけど、七〇年代フェミニズムを擁護する部分が鼻につくのは、わたしが男性だからでしょうか。（念のために言っておくが、語り手は、単純に擁護してはいない。） なお日本人が出てくるシーンがあるが、これは、精緻な物語のなかでは、ちょっと余計というか、意味が薄いと思うんですが、どうでしょうか。

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