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'The book appeared in Canada in the fall of 1985 to baffled and sometimes anxious reviews' â¦ the English National Opera production of The Handmaid's Tale, 2003. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Some books haunt the reader. Others haunt the writer. The Handmaid's Tale has done both. The Handmaid's Tale has not been out of print since it was first published, back in 1985. It has sold millions of copies worldwide and has appeared in a bewildering number of translations and editions.
Mild spoilers for The Handmaid's Tale book and TV show below! One of the more interesting aspects of Margaret Atwood's 1985 book, The Handmaid's Tale, is that she leaves a number of key plot points up for interpretation. By the end of the dystopian feminist novel, everything from the fates of big characters to the real name of the protagonist, Offred, remains unclear. Luckily, Hulu's adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale has finally confirmed the latter. In Atwood's story, the moniker of Offred literally means of Fred, ie she's the child-bearing property of her Commander, whose name happens to be Fred (we also encounter other Handmaids with names like Ofglen, Ofwarren, and so on).