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YOKOHAMA, Japan — Masazumi Kato sighed deeply as he lowered himself into a tub at a public bathhouse in a Tokyo suburb, enjoying a return to a Japanese tradition largely off-limits during the city's coronavirus lockdown.

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

London: Chatto & Windus: 2019

Pp. 419

“The Testaments” is the novel for which Margaret Atwood won the 2019 Booker Prize, jointly with Bernardine Evaristo. It is the sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale”, Atwood’s dystopian novel about Gilead, a puritanical theocracy where women are prized only for their reproductive capacity, and otherwise systematically disempowered and abused.

Since its 1985 publication, “The Handmaid’s Tale” has... Читать дальше...

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