The cult book of a whole generation – unabridged for listening. In the Republic of Gilead, Desfred has no choice: she must bear children. Otherwise, like all deviants, she will either be hanged at the wall or sent to a slow death by radiation. But no matter how totalitarian a state may be, it cannot extinguish desire – neither Desfred's nor that of the two men who hold her future in their hands. Brilliantly conceived and written: Margaret Atwood's razor-sharp insight and biting wit make this chilling invocation of a 21st-century America a disturbing and multi-layered masterpiece.