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The Testaments: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 ハードカバー – 2019/9/10
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** WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 **
** SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **
BOOK OF THE YEAR: Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Stylist, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Guardian, The Times, Observer, Red
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.
Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets.
As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.
‘Dear Readers: Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we’ve been living in.' Margaret Atwood
- 本の長さ432ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Chatto & Windus
- 発売日2019/9/10
- 寸法15.6 x 3.8 x 24 cm
- ISBN-101784742325
- ISBN-13978-1784742324
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An incredible follow-up ― the Sun, *Pick of the Week*
Gripping, pacy and beautifully written -- Justine Jordan ― Guardian
Finding hope in a hopeless place, this is everything The Handmaid’s Tale fans wanted and more. Prepare to hold your breath throughout, and to cry real tears at the end. My book of the year -- Kayleigh Dray ― Stylist
The Testaments is Atwood at her best, in its mixture of generosity, insight and control. The prose is adroit, direct, beautifully turned. All over the reading world, the history books are being opened to the next blank page and Atwood’s name is written at the top of it. To read this book is to feel the world turning -- Anne Enright ― Guardian
I gobbled it down... Atwood has an incredible intellectual nimbleness that challenges us constantly and poses the question that lies like a pearl inside the shell of this frighteningly readable novel, "Before you sit in judgement, how would you behave in Gilead?" -- Allison Pearson ― Sunday Telegraph
No one needs another recommendation for The Testaments and still I have to say how thrilling it is when a book manages to exceed all expectations. How did she manage to make darkness feel so effortless? How did she think to inject humour where no humour should exist? Because she’s Margaret Atwood, and she can do anything -- Ann Patchett
A cracker: urgent, moving and as tense as any thriller... there's a darkly rebellious humour, ingenious wordplay and, of course, chillingly timely warnings. Atwood is long overdue a Nobel -- Hepzibah Anderson ― Mail on Sunday
At its heart, this gripping novel is a rallying call for action... In Atwood's world, resistance is never futile -- Mernie Gilmore ― Daily Express
The must-read novel of the year -- a perfect gift for bookworms and fans of the TV series ― Sunday Telegraph
Believe the reviews, it is remarkable -- Lindsay Woods ― Irish Examiner
A plump, pacy, witty and tightly plotted page-turner that transports us straight back to the dark heart of Gilead... Atwood is on top form -- Julie Myerson ― Observer
The Testaments is that elusive dream of a book -- an erudite, accessible, highly readable adventure, that brims with ideas but never lets them get in the way of the story -- Cathy Rentzenbrink ― Prospect
While unflinching in depicting horror and showing how complicity enables the collapse of compassion, The Testaments is also a clarion call to hope, resistance and activism... a formidable achievement that will doubtless be read in decades to come -- Anita Sethi ― i news
With surgical clarity, Atwood documents how the stripping of fundamental freedoms, the weight of systemic oppression, pushes individuals to extremes... The pacing is flawless. The prose is lean, mean, and charged -- David Canfield ― Entertainment Weekly
著者について
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, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade; in 2022 Burning Questions, a collection of essays, was a Sunday Times bestseller; and in 2023, Old Babes in the Wood, a collection of short stories, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller.
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, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. 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.
登録情報
- 出版社 : Chatto & Windus (2019/9/10)
- 発売日 : 2019/9/10
- 言語 : 英語
- ハードカバー : 432ページ
- ISBN-10 : 1784742325
- ISBN-13 : 978-1784742324
- 寸法 : 15.6 x 3.8 x 24 cm
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レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
Such a beautiful way of writing.
One of my favorite book.
(仕事中お手洗いに行くふりをしてこっそり読み進めていました)
前作は読んでいませんが、Hulu でシーズン1, 2を鑑賞しています。
おそらく前作はHandmaidから見たGilead を中心に話が進んでいたのだと予想しますが、本作没頭では特に子供たちから見たGileadや、Gilead体制になる前のAunt Lydiaについて書かれていたのが興味深かったです。
そんななか、マーガレット・アトウッドがThe Handmaid's Taleの続編であるThe Testamentsを出版した。ブッカー賞の審査官であっても出版日までは全編を読むことを許されていないほど秘密主義だったようだが、アマゾンが発売日より前に一部のカスタマーに「ミス」で郵送してしまったというスキャンダルもあった。
それほど期待されたThe Testamentsだが、何十年も前からThe Handmaid's Taleを愛してきた読者にとっては不安な本でもあった。せっかくの名作の価値を損なう駄作だったらどうしよう?
結論から言うと、駄作ではないが、前作のように歴史に残る名作でもない。前作が紛れもない「文芸小説」だったのに対し、新作はよくある「ディストピア・ファンタジー」のように感じる。読んでいて面白いが、前作のように、行間から漂う不気味さや絶望感はない。しかし、前作では不明だったGileadの初期、構造、命運、そしてOffredのその後などの回答を得ることができるので、アトウッドが多くの読者から受けた質問の回答編としては納得できる。また、アクションが多くて決して読み飽きない。
Gileadの成人女性にはWife(妻)、Handmaid(子供を生むだけの道具)、Martha(手伝い)、Aunt(小母)という4つの階級しかない。上流階級の若い女性は学校で良き妻になる教育を受け、十代のうちに年上の司令官や上官の「幼妻」になる。上流階級の家で料理や掃除を行うMarthaには個々の名前はなく、誰もがMarthaと呼ばれる。何人のMarthaをあてがわれるかでその家の主人の重要さがわかるようになっている。文字が読めるのはAuntだけであり、そのほかの女性は本だけでなく文字を読むことが禁じられている。掟を破った広場で絞首刑になるか、罪が軽くて若ければ司令官たち専用の娼婦という運命しかない。
The Testamentsの主要人物は、前回でOffredのサディスティックな教育係だったAunt Lydia、Kyle司令官の養子として育てられたAgnes、そしてカナダで育った16歳のDaisy(読者にはGileadが取り戻したがっているBaby Nicoleだとすぐわかるようになっている)の3人の女性だ。
この中で最も興味深いのはAunt Lydiaだ。前の世界ではフェミニストで元女性判事だったAunt LydiaがいかにしてGileadの主要人物になったのか、そしてこの国の未来をどう操ろうとしているのか、そのあたりに人間の複雑さを感じる。
この小説の3人の女性が教えてくれるのは、民主主義や人権がいかに脆弱なものかということだ。
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I harbour little doubt – getting pretty close to infinitesimal – that this lady has yet to unleash her total wealth of writing energy.
The Testaments is time-set a dozen or so years later than that of her powerhouse, The Handmaid’s Tale. Three narrators, all female of course, share the task of showing the reader the changes that have occurred; a world that is more corrupt and trust is, well, do you even dare take that chance?
Atwood’s writing is fearless and brilliant and though supposedly about a dystopian future, I wonder if she is not an oracle or possesses the power of a seer given the recent tragic (and I think it nothing less) decision of the United States Supreme Court that delivered not only a near-knockout blow to women’s reproductive rights, but set back severely an eternity of struggle for rights of all kinds. It scares the hell out of me, it really does!
Atwood’s future, if it remains such (and let us fervently pray it does!), illustrates very well what 18th century English historian Lord Acton wrote: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.”
The Testaments is a powerhouse book that may actually prove a weapon to fight and defeat the kind of future it portrays.