Margaret Atwood will publish the second part of "The tale of the good"

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood announced that she would publish in September 2019 the sequel to her popular novel "The Tale of the Good", published in 1985 and revitalized these days by the series of the same name. It will be titled "Wills".

On Twitter, the novelist explained how the story of the dystopian world in which women are subjected and forced to have children for power couples who can not conceive will continue. "I'm writing more of" The Tale of the Maid. "Wills" he is 15 years old after the final scene of Offred and commented by three female characters, "he tweeted.

In a statement, the publisher of Penguin Random House announced that the sequel would go on sale September 10, 2019. Atwood will return to the events of the Republic of Gilead, where a group of men at the 39, ultra-Catholic ideology taken to the extreme took power from part of the United States by storm, after a brutal civil war.

Based on rules, laws and regulations, they created new social clbades, citizens of first and second clbad. If you do not fit in this framework, there is only one end: death. In this context, women are subjected, treated like objects and, being able to become pregnant, forced to carry in their belly the babies of the commanders.

The idea of ​​the writer is to develop a story based on the reinvention of news in the United States. "All they've asked me about Gilead is the inspiration for this book." The other inspiration it's the world we live in", closed the posted post on Atwood social networks.

The inspiration of Atwood was, as he has said in several interviews, facts from the history of the world: Extreme religious thoughts from the Bible, the Iranian revolution of 1979 – according to the concept of theocratic republic – and mbad reaction against feminist movements in 1980, under the leadership of the administration of Republican Ronald Reagan, the Nazism and movements The fascists of the early 1900s and even the theft of babies during the last military dictatorship in Argentina.

The book took a different impetus from that of 2017 when the series based on this work was published. In this document, the events of the second season have been created for the screen. With Elisabeth Moss, fiction was a surprise and has won two Golden Globe Awards and several Emmys.