called The Testaments which is set 15 years after The Handmaid’s Tale.

In 2019 Margaret Atwood wrote a sequel sequel: a continuation of a formerly published book/film etc. While the first season is directly based on the book, the subsequent subsequent: following seasons imagine what would have happened after the book, and they take a closer look at what could have led to such a totalitarian state in the first place. The Handmaid’s Tale was turned into a TV series produced by Bruce Miller for the American streaming service Hulu in 2016. She explains further that “it’s a response to ‘it can’t happen here.’

Atwood says that while the novel is a work of fiction, none of the events described in the book are fictive. She is part of the suppressed social class of the “handmaids” who are forced to produce children for the ruling class of men. The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel about a woman called Offred who lives in fictional Gilead, a state that is highly religious, patriarchal and totalitarian. The genre she is mostly known for is dystopian dystopian: a fictive state or society where there is great suffering or injustice fiction, like The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Oryx and Crake (2003) and her most recent work The Testaments (2019). She has written more than 50 books, her work has been published in more than forty-five countries and she has won innumerable innumerable: too many to be counted literature awards. Margaret Atwood is one of the most famous, if not THE most famous, Canadian writer.

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