The Handmaids Taleby Margaret Atwood Genre: Classics , Fiction Rating: 4.08/5 language: English format: PDF , EPUB Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the ...