Written by Amrita Dutta |Updated: October 20, 2019 4:19:16 pm
Birth of the Iron Fist
Margaret Atwood’s latest reveals the insidious armature of Gilead — an oppressive political order we are uncomfortably familiar with
Who are you, my reader? And when are you? Perhaps, tomorrow, perhaps 50 years from now, perhaps never.” In Margaret Atwood’s new novel, its most vital character is aware of the possibility that the testimony she is writing, at the pain of death, could mean nothing without the presence of a reader. That it would be as a tree falling in a silent forest, unacknowledged, unheard. But since 1985, when The Handmaid’s Tale was first published, readers have hearkened to the book’s most striking warning — that every society carries within itself, like an unfertilised egg journeying to the womb, the possibility of dystopia.
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