Margaret Atwood is working on a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the most popular and influential feminist novel ever written. Margaret Atwood has announced a sequel to her dystopian novel “The Handmaid's Tale.” (Liam Sharp)Her sequel, titled “The Testaments,” opens 15 years after the conclusion of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and is narrated by three women, according to a statement released by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday on Wednesday. “The Handmaid’s Tale” has sold 8 million copies in English since it was first published in 1985. Last year, in an essay for the New York Times, Atwood recalled how she wrote “The Handmaid’s Tale” by hand in West Berlin. Although “The Handmaid’s Tale,” George Orwell’s “1984” and other classic dystopias have continued to sell very well in the Trump era, modern novels haven’t broken through to capture the public’s imagination in the same way.

Source: Washington Post November 28, 2018 14:42 UTC