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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.
I began this book almost 30 years ago, in the spring of 1984, while living in West Berlin â still encircled, at that time, by the Berlin Wall. The book was not called The Handmaid's Tale at first â it was called Offred â but I note in my journal that its name changed on 3 January 1985, when almost 150 pages had been written. That's about all I can note, however.