The Testaments (The Handmaid’s Tale Book 2)

基本信息

作者: Margaret Atwood 

Paperback: 448页

出版社: Chatto & Windus（RHUK) (2020年9月1日)

语种: 英语

ISBN: 9781784708214                                          

产品尺寸及重量: 197 x 129 x 35 (mm) | 390g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准 

书籍简介

奥芙弗雷德是基列共和国的一名使女。她是这个国家中为数不多能够生育的女性之一，被分配到没有后代的指挥官家庭，帮助他们生育子嗣。和这个国家里的其他女性一样，她没有行动的自由，被剥夺了财产、工作和阅读的权利。除了某些特殊的日子，使女们每天只被允许结伴外出一次购物，她们的一举一 动都受到“眼目”的监视。更糟糕的是，在这个疯狂的世界里，人类不仅要面对生态恶化、经济危机等问题，还陷入了相互敌视、等级分化和肆意杀戮的混乱局面。女性并非这场浩劫中唯一被压迫的对象，每个人都是这个看似荒诞的世界里的受害者。

To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne EnrightThe Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes? Now with additional material: book club discussion points and an interview with Margaret Atwood about the real-life events that inspired The Testaments and The Handmaid's Tale.

作者简介

被誉为“加拿大文学女王”的玛格丽特•阿特伍德（Margaret Atwood）是一位勤奋多产的作家，也是二十世纪加拿大文坛为数不多享有国际声誉的诗人。现居多伦多。

自上世纪六十年代中期起，阿特伍德便以持久旺盛的创作力不给评论界任何淡忘她的机会。她获得过除诺贝尔文学奖之外的大多数重量级国际文学奖，并被多伦多大学等十多所院校授予荣誉博士学位。她的作品已被译成三十多种文字。2017年，阿特伍德获卡夫卡奖和德国书业和平奖。

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. Its sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.