Facts about The Handmaid's Tale

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   Booker Prize judges controversially deemed The Handmaid's Tale ineligible for the 1986 prize because Atwood is Canadian, not British.

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   Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale while living in West Berlin and Alabama, drawing on historical precedents for each oppressive element in the novel.

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   In The Handmaid's Tale, the subjugated women called Handmaids are identified by color-coded red clothing, symbolizing fertility and their reproductive role.

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   Adapted into a television series by Hulu, The Handmaid's Tale became the first streaming show to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series.

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   Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale was published in 1985 and is set in the theocratic Republic of Gilead.

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