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Sequel to Handmaid’s Tale
makes the Booker longlist
Alison FloodMost readers will have to wait until
September to read Margaret Atwood’s
sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, hav-
ing already waited 34 years.
But the judges of the Booker prize
have already deemed The Testaments
worthy of a place on the longlist.
This is the sixth time the Canadian
has been nominated for the Booker,
and her fi rst nomination since she won
the UK’s most prestigious literary prize
for The Blind Assassin in 2000.
The Testaments , out on 10 Sep-
tember, is set 15 years after the end
of her dystopian classic The Hand-
maid’s Tale. The new novel’s contents
remain a closely guarded secret – with
this year’s judges , chaired by Hay festi-
val director Peter Florence , only saying
in their statement: “Spoiler discretion
and a ferocious non-disclosure agree-
ment prevent any description of who,
how, why and even where. So this: it’s
terrifying and exhilarating.”
Atwood, 79, will be competingconceived, and challenges the reader
with its virtuosity and originality ... a
cacophony of humour, violence and
Joycean wordplay, it engages – furi-
ously – with the detritus of domesticity
as well as Trump’s America”.
Ellmann is published by tiny inde-
pendent press Galley Beggar, which
first saw the potential in Eimear
McBride’s award-winning bestseller
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing.
The 13-book list also includes: Turk-
ish novelist Elif Shafak for 10 Minutes
38 Seconds in This Strange World ,
which details the memories of an
Istanbul sex worker whose corpse is
left in a bin; Irish author Kevin Barry
for Night Boat to Tangier , which the
judges called “a work of crime fi ction
not quite like any other”; and Nige-
rian author Chigozie Obioma , whose
An Orchestra of Minorities is loosely
based on the Odyssey.
And Mexican-Italian writer Val-
eria Luiselli is nominated for her fi rst
book written in English, Lost Children
Archive , which sets a family road trip
from New York alongside the jour-
ney of a group of Mexican childrenwith another former winner: Salman
Rushdie, 72, nominated this time for
Quichotte. Inspired by Don Quixote
and published in August, it sees an age-
ing travelling salesman falling in love
with a TV star and driving across Amer-
ica to win her hand.
On a longlist notable for its exclusion
of authors including Mark Haddon,
Ian McEwan and Ali Smith, Rushdie
is one of several Brit ons. Alongside
him are: Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl,
Woman, Other ; John Lanchester for
his dystopia The Wall ; Deborah Levy’s
The Man Who Saw Everything; Max
Porter’s Lanny ; and Jeanette Winter-
son’s Frankissstein , a reinterpretation
of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
After tensions in previous years over
changes to the prize’s rules, widened
at the end of 2013 to include US fi ction,
just one American is featured : Lucy
Ellmann. Born in Illinois, Ellmann
moved to England as a teenager, and
was picked for Ducks, Newburyport ,
a 1,000-page monologue from an Ohio
homemaker composed almost entirely
of a single sentence. The judges said
Ducks, New bury port was “brilliantly▼ Canadian novelist Margaret
Atwood is longlisted for her sequel
to The Handmaid’s Tale, her 1985
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