The other two are Aunt Lydia - a survivor who has engineered to be in a position of power and who thinks nothing of manipulating people to achieve her ends - and Daisy, who is Agnes’ half sister and a resident of Canada.
She is one of the three voices telling the story of Gilead. Her daughter Agnes is a teenager, growing up in the home of a Commander and his wife Tabitha, who Agnes thinks of as her biological mother. The book is set in a time 15 years after Offred boards the van in The Handmaid’s Tale.
At least in her novel, as The Testaments ends with the crumbling of Gilead. So even as a Greta Thunberg cries hoarse at a UN convention, challenging political leaders with a “how dare you”, there are no immediate answers to apocalyptic forces like climate change, or even the will to find any. Be it the unnerving inventions from Oryx and Crake or the calamities of The Year of the Flood, there is nothing we do not have the possibility of experiencing. Innumerable parallels have been drawn between a Gilead that Atwood writes about and America under Trump. THE TESTAMENTS will be published by Vintage and Penguin on 10 September.Complete list of dry days in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru in 2023įrequently labelled as dystopian, Atwood has repeatedly insisted that her writings are nothing but extrapolations of what we have seen in the past and are currently living through. The event is also planned to involve readings of real-world cases in partnership with Equality Now in addition to readings from Atwood’s work An evening of conversation and performance, filmed live from the stage of the National Theatre, with privileged access to this iconic author. The Handmaid’s Tale has come to represent a powerful symbol against misogyny and oppression and the evening will reflect on the real-world events that inspired the original story and the alarming political climate which has, in part, inspired this sequel. Exclusive documentary content with rare archive will open a window on to Atwood’s rich and varied career. A number of remarkable actors, including Lily James (more to be announced) will read from The Testaments, allowing audiences to be the first to discover the new book. The intimate evening will be a celebration of Atwood’s work. The momentous literary event will be celebrated with an exclusive cinema broadcast filmed live. THE TESTAMENTS, Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, will be revealed in a global cinematic event.
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