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The Handmaid's Tale 豆瓣
作者: Margaret Atwood Vintage 2017 - 10
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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.
2021年1月28日 已读
2021年1月28日 评论 Some Sentiments - When I finished this book, I was overwhelmed with the sentiments as follows. Any good social practices, systems or values are fragile themselves. If we don’t step up our efforts to defend them, they may easily fade into insignificance or even invisible. Since the will to power is older than civilization, and the power of the will is at least as strong as civilization, I can’t help saying: take care, mankind.
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