The Handmaid's Tale

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Literature & Fiction
Author:	Margaret Atwood

I don't want to spoil anything, so I try my best to write this review without retelling the story.

First-half of the book is somewhat boring, but I do enjoy Atwood's imagination of how's the world would be like if women were man's property and had no rights to own money and get a job. It is a dystopian novel (To be more specific, it is somewhat a feminist-dystopian novel, which covers political and religius hypocrisy as well), sets near-future in a tyrannical country named Gilead. And as many other dystopian novels, hypocrisy is always the part of the society-in-power.

Then comes this last-half part of the book with all the suspenses and ironical symbolisms... I hardly ever put the book away from my sight for it is too intriguing to be left behind (reading the book becomes one of my priorities in my to-do-list these days) What unique about the book is, it mainly focuses on... oh, well, I can't spoil it... but I can tell you what I like best from the novel... it's the way Atwood describes the protagonist's feeling in details. The way the character sees things in the novel... it really takes my breath away several times and lets my mind review all those feminist theories_ only this time, in a very elegant way...

It's not a book that tells women to hate men... (the tone of the writing is very clever_ i found no "blaming-on-one-gender" tone) It's a book that tells people what it is like for women (and some men) when they had no access to financial independence, no rights to speak, and even no rights of the ownership of their own female body...

Pro-choice enthusiasts might find this book very interesting...
Pro-life enthusiasts might find this book as a useful input...
Feminists should read this book...
Anti-feminists MUST read this book...

(Fundamentalists... please read this book... heehee)