On Monday night, timed for PEN America’s annual gala, Atwood and Penguin Random House announced that a one-off, unburnable edition of “ The Handmaid’s Tale” would be auctioned through Sotheby’s New York. WATCH: Why Margaret Atwood saw this as the moment for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ sequel But until recently she had spared herself the nightmare of trying to burn one of her own books. Published on 10 September 2019 it reflects the tumultuous political and social events of today in an unmissable new story for our times.NEW YORK (AP) - Margaret Atwood has imagined apocalyptic disaster, Dystopian government and an author faking her own death. Now readers can step back into the world of The Handmaid's Tale with Margaret Atwood's sequel, The Testaments. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.īrilliantly conceived and executed, The Handmaid's Tale is a bold evocation of twenty-first century America that gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.Īre you ready to return to Gilead? Don't miss the year's most anticipated book. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed.
To some, it is a utopian vision of the future, a place of safety, a place where everyone has a purpose, a function. They’ve removed anything you could tie a rope to. Above, on the white ceiling, a relief ornament in the shape of a wreath, and in the centre of it a blank space, plastered over, like the place in a face where the eye has been taken out. Utterly compelling and terrifyingly real, The Handmaid's Tale is a classic work of feminist fiction and a vivid dystopia that speaks afresh to every new generation of readers.Ī chair, a table, a lamp.
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