Margaret Atwood writes the sequel to The Tale of the Maid

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood said Wednesday that she was writing a sequel to her dystopian hit novel "The Tale of the Housekeeper".

"Yes, indeed to those who asked: I write a sequel to #HandmaidsTale (The tale of the good)," wrote Atwood on his Twitter account.

Called "The Testaments," the novel will run 15 years after the events described in "The Tale of the Maid" and will be told by three female characters, the writer wrote in a tweet.

Yes, indeed, to those who asked: I write as a result of The #HandmaidsTale. #Testaments takes place 15 years after the final scene of Offred and is narrated by three female characters. It will be published in September 2019. More details: https://t.co/e1umh5FwpX pic.twitter.com/pePp0zpuif

– Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) November 28, 2018

The publication of the book is scheduled for September 2019 by Penguin Random House, a division of the German Bertelsmann.

"The Tale of the Maid", the vision of a near future in an American society called Gilead where women are not allowed to read or write, where their children are taken away and forced to become bad slaves by a dictatorship patriarchal, was published for the first time in 1985.

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His adaptation for television in the Hulu streaming service last year received new awards and multiple Emmys for the performance of Elisabeth Moss as protagonist, Offred.

"All that has been asked about Gilead and his internal work is the inspiration for this book, well, just about everything," wrote Atwood in the video containing the Twitter message.

"The other inspiration is the world we live in," he added, without giving more details.

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Feminists in many countries have adopted the red suits and white hats worn by the maids in the book and in the television series to claim the rights of women in demonstrations and parades.

Atwood, 79, said his sequel would not be tied to the television series "The Handmaid's Tale", whose second season has progressed this year beyond the author's original book.

The writer, who has gained more notoriety with the television series, actively participates in debates on women's rights, as she did in Argentina, through the vice-president, during the debate on women's rights. the law of voluntary termination of pregnancy.

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