The Wicked Storyteller: Enchanting African Folktale

McClelland & Stewart on Instagram: "Forty years ago, Margaret Atwood sat down at a typewriter to begin a novel originally titled Offred. That book became The Handmaid’s Tale — a story of Gilead inspired by real regimes and real events. As Atwood has said: ‘Nothing went into it that had not happened in real life somewhere at some time.’ Since then, The Handmaid’s Tale has sold over 8 million copies in English, been translated into more than 40 languages, inspired an Emmy award-winning six-season