The Testaments 증언들

Margaret Atwood

<The Handmaid's Tale>이 출간된 지 30여 년 만에 나온 후속작으로, 부커상을 수상했다.

속편이 있다는 걸 알게 되자마자 빌려서 읽었는데 역사와 사회 문제를 바라보는 통찰력이 대단했다.

세 명의 시점이 교차해서 나오는데 서로 전혀 다른 상황에서 살아온 인물들을 모두 현실감 있게 묘사하고 있다.

마거릿 애트우드의 책을 읽은 건 이번이 세 번째인데, 읽으면 읽을수록 여성 문제에 관심이 많아지고 있다.

다른 책도 더 읽어봐야겠다.

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You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

"What do they even look like?"
"They look like anybody."

It's better that way, and I am a great proponent of better. In the absence of best.
Which is how we live now.

"No one wants to die. But some people don't want to live in any of the ways that are allowed."

Still, I wanted to believe, indeed I longed to; and, in the end, how much of belief comes from longing?

You yourself would never have done such things! But you yourself will never have had to.

Interview

"I hope the scarcity of children will go on until motherhood is honoured at least as much as the trials and hardships of soldiers campaigning in wartime. It will then be worthwhile to supply the nation with a sufficiency of children."

I already knew what I was writing about and this was backup. In case someone said, "How did you make this up?" As I've said about a million times, I didn't make it up. This is the proof - everything in these boxes.