“The zoo story” will be continued: 33 years after their dystopian success of the novel Appear to be Margaret Atwood for the coming year, has announced a second volume. “The Testament” is to use 15 years after the actions of the first book and the three female characters as the Narrator.

In “Report of the maid” (original title: “The Handmaid’s Tale”) designed to Atwood, a totalitarian society called Gilead in which women and men are completely subjugated. In the fictional country, which has taken the place of the United States, prevails in large Parts of infertility, which is why the few remaining fertile women are used as Gebärsklavinnen.

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The book was in 1985 an international Bestseller. By the multi-award-winning series adaptation of 2016, the novel and its author received a great deal of attention – not least because many observers detected the inside and the observer in it a scenario where the US Celtabet could, under the for his sexism and misogyny known to President Donald Trump approach.

with The series popularized dark red robes of the maids are to be seen regularly on Anti-Trump-Demos. Also in the red fir-trees, which made trump’s wife Melania recently in the White house set up, recognized some of the garments.

The reason why you have posted after such a long time for a sequel, announced Margaret Atwood, via Twitter, that they had moved one of the many questions of your readers to the original material – and also “the world in which we live”.

“The Testament” is to appear in September 2019 in North America. During the first season of the series adaptation of apprehension, the events of the original book, told in the second season on its own. A third season is also scheduled for 2019.

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