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# Enter the World of the Handmaids

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale turns 40 this year. A landmark of speculative fiction, it imagined a chilling world where fertility is scarce and women are valued only for their ability to bear children. Anna and Elena Balbusso’s illustrations, which won the Society of Illustrators’ Gold Medal in 2012 for this very Folio, capture both the silence and the threat that defines Gilead. Atwood’s own introduction leads readers back into a regime where every word and gesture carries danger. Nothing escapes the ever watchful Eye, but in Gilead the smallest acts of defiance burn brightest. The question is, will you join the revolution?

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llustrations © Anna and Elena Balbusso 2012, from The Handmaid's Tale

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