Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but…
“Bohong kalau saya tidak gembira diberi kesempatan berhaji. Namun, bohong juga jika saya tidak tegang menghadapinya. Tidak cuma tegang, tetapi juga ada semacam rasa takut.” (halaman ix)