The seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author, soon to be a television series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, Alexis Bledel, and Joseph Fiennes. The series premieres April 26 on Hulu. 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…