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"Testimony" Author: [Canada] Margaret Atwood 2020 Foreign Literature (Fiction)
"Testimony" Author: [Canada] Margaret Atwood 2020 Foreign Literature (Fiction)
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The sequel to the global bestseller The Handmaid's Tale
Atwood wins the 2019 Booker Prize for the second time
New characters present different perspectives and reveal the secrets behind Gilead for the first time
One copy was sold every four seconds in the UK, and 500,000 copies were sold out in the first week worldwide.
It will soon be adapted into a TV series, continuing the ratings myth of "The Handmaid's Tale".
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"It is striking that this novel does not feel like the work of a writer in the later stages of her career, but rather her peak." - Liz Calder, Booker Prize judge
"I have always believed that Margaret Atwood will win the Nobel Prize soon, and I still think so now and still hope that she will win the prize." - Kazuo Ishiguro
“She is always ahead of her time. No matter which of her novels you read, you will be hooked within half an hour.”
-- Carmen Carrier, senior publisher
“If any novelist can justify writing a sequel, it’s Atwood.”
——The Guardian
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"Dear readers: You have asked me many questions about Gilead and its inner workings. These questions have inspired this book. In part, they have inspired the world we live in."
—Margaret Atwood
Fifteen years after the end of The Handmaid's Tale, Gilead's rule shows signs of decay from within. At a critical moment when great changes are about to come, the fates of three women with different identities and backgrounds begin to intersect, which leads to subversive consequences. They witness the changes of history from their own perspectives. The three different narrative voices construct a larger and more open time and space, revealing for the first time the secrets behind the overthrow of Gilead. The past and the future gradually overlap in the narration, and the truth is presented to the readers in an amazing way.
About the Author
Margaret Atwood, known as the "Queen of Canadian Literature", is a diligent and prolific writer and one of the few poets in the 20th century Canadian literary world who enjoys international reputation. She currently lives in Toronto.
Since the mid-1960s, Atwood has given critics no chance to forget her with her enduring and vigorous creativity. She has won most of the major international literary awards except the Nobel Prize in Literature, and has been awarded honorary doctorates by more than a dozen institutions including the University of Toronto. Her works have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2017, Atwood won the Kafka Prize and the German Book Industry Peace Prize. In 2019, Atwood once again won the Booker Prize with "Testimony".
Suo is a famous young literary translator and writer. He is a member of the Shanghai Writers Association and a contracted writer of the Shanghai Writers Association.
Graduated from the Department of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language of East China Normal University. So far, he has published many personal works, including the novels "A Black Cat's Autism", "Afterwards", and "Seraphim", the collection of book and film reviews "Lonely Reading in a Panic City", as well as several collections of short stories and essays. He is also committed to literary translation. So far, dozens of translated works have been published, including the seventh volume of "The Dark Tower" and "Duma Island" by the famous American writer Stephen King, the long masterpiece "Wandering" by the new Nobel Prize winner Tokarczuk, "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown, "Between Time" and "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" by British female writer Winterson, and "Beauty and Violence: The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima" by British writer Henry S. Stoker.
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