The handmaid's tale - Margaret Atwood

 Where in the last book of Margaret Atwood I read, Oryx and Crake, the world is very vast, in this book the world is the opposite, very tiny. Offred lives in her room, and out shopping in the small town, that is her world, and our world while reading. There is a world outside this, colonies where people are banned to do slavery work, and a world where there is a war raging, but other then some newsclips you never see anything of this, and how this world and that world combine (what is outside the wall?) you never really see, as Offred never really sees anymore. This book is the written account of Offred, making it even smaller.
This is a distopian world . 'I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out, but that every woman knew: don't open you door to a stranger, even if he says it is the police. Make him slide his ID under the door. Don't stop on the road to help a motorist pretending to be in trouble. Keep the locks and keep going. If anyone whistles, don't turn and look. Don't go in the laundromat, by yourself, at night.' But! This is what this distopian world says about the world before, about our world!

(I have been to laundromats by myself at night by the way).

Names are evidence. Offred, Ofglen. Woman are not more than the property of certain men. That is I think why it feels so important, in this day and age (having been written in another world altogether, in 1985, when the USSR was still existing, the wall and the towers had not fallen). 

One thing that caught me was that everything in this world was restricted, except smoking!