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A text of Kevin Sweet
Margaret Atwood confirms what many people suspected: her landmark novel The scarlet maid, published in 1985, will have a sequel.
Indeed, for those who ask: I write a continuation to The scarlet maid. The Wills takes place 15 years after the final scene with Offred and the story will be narrated by three female characters
says the author, who is now 79 years old.
The title in English is The Wills, but for the moment the title of the translation into French is not known. The work will be published in September 2019 by the publishing house Penguin Random House in Canada, and Nan A. Talese / Doubleday in the United States.
Margaret Atwood said in a statement that she was inspired by questions from her readers and of the world in which we live
to create this suite.
let's remember that The scarlet maid is the most famous of the author's books, with eight million copies sold around the world.
She tells how a religious dictatorship overthrows democracy in the United States, reducing many women to slavery. These are broken in particular to give birth to children, who are then entrusted to infertile couples.
The novel The scarlet maid was back in the news with the election of Donald Trump in 2016. The story was also transposed into a very popular TV series of the online listening site Hulu.
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