I testamenti riprendono dove era terminato Il Racconto dell'Ancella. Se in quel libro Gilead era al suo massimo potere e la vicenda ci veniva raccontata da donne che avevano vissuto il prima e si erano trovate costrette in questa nuova realtà, in questo nuovo libro questa visione così estremista va incontro alla sua fine, e possiamo vedere il punto di vista di una ragazzina che vi è nata e cresciuta, per cui Gilead è l'unico mondo che abbia mai conosciuto, con tutti i suoi errori è la sua casa. Gli altri due punti di vista sono di una ragazzina nata in Canada, e soprattutto di zia Lydia, la vera protagonista del libro, donna di grande astuzia e saggezza, che ha conosciuto il mondo come era prima ed è sopravvissuta, arrivando al vertice, grazie solo a se stessa. Per quanto parte di Gilead, non riesco a riconoscerla come una dei cattivi, ma come una che ha tramato nell'ombra e di cui solo alla fine viene riconosciuto il valore. Un personaggio enorme, di grandissimo valore.
Margaret Atwood riesce, a partire dalle testimonianze di queste tre donne, a ricostruire quel mondo e a creare un intreccio che vi terrà il fiato sospeso fino alla fine. Avrei davvero voluto non avere una vita in quei due giorni, potermi concentrare totalmente sulla lettura, perchè ne merita davvero la pena. Libro magnifico, vorrete divorarlo, per quanto l'ansia vi faccia battere forte il cuore nel petto.
Libro potente, un attesa che è stata ripagata mille volte.
Margaret Atwood
I testamenti
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One of the most anticipated books of the year, certainly awaited by me since I learned of its release. Because The handmaid's tale, read a few years ago, was one of the most important books I've ever read, a set of devastating emotions that changed me. After some time I still felt the anxiety for the story, that awareness that this dystopian world wasn't completely invented but whatever has already happened, it happens now somewhere in the world, it will happen. A completely regulated world, where the body of women is totally subject to rules that remove all rights and powers from the one who owns that body.
The testaments starts where The Handmaid's Tale was finished. If in that book Gilead was at its maximum power and the story was told to us by women who had lived a normal world before and found themselves forced into this new reality, in this new book this very extremist vision meets its end, and we can see the point of view of a girl who was born and raised there, for whom Gilead is the only world she has ever known, is her home even with all its flaws. The other two points of view are of a young girl born in Canada, and above all of Aunt Lydia, the true protagonist of the book, a woman of great cunning and wisdom, who has known the world as it was before and has survived, arriving at the top, thanks only to herself. Even as being part of Gilead, I cannot recognize her as one of the villains, but as one who has plotted in the shadows and whose value is only recognized in the end. A huge character, of great value.
Margaret Atwood succeeds, starting from the testimonies of these three women, to rebuild that world and to create a plot that will keep you in suspense until the end. I really wish I didn't have a life in those two days, so I could concentrate totally on reading, because it really deserves it. Magnificent book, you will want to devour it, as anxiety makes your heart beat faster in the chest.
Powerful book, a wait that has been repaid a thousand times.
Margaret Atwood
The testaments
