Sales have also risen drastically for George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and “1984,” which shot to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list this week. “The Handmaid’s Tale” is among several classic dystopian novels that seem to be resonating with readers at a moment of heightened anxiety about the state of American democracy. Atwood’s publisher has reprinted 100,000 copies in the last three months to meet a spike in demand after the election. In 2016, sales of the book, which is in its 52nd printing, were up 30 percent over the previous year. Atwood has been hearing from anxious readers who see eerie parallels between the novel’s oppressive society and the current Republican administration’s policy goals of curtailing reproductive rights. “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which takes place in near-future New England as a totalitarian regime has taken power and stripped women of their civil rights, was published 32 years ago. “There were a honking huge number of them,” Ms. “The Handmaid’s Tale is NOT an Instruction Manual!” read another.
“Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!” one sign read. People were sending her images of protesters with signs that referenced her dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Last weekend, as hundreds of thousands of women gathered in Washington to protest the inauguration of President Trump, the novelist Margaret Atwood began getting a string of notifications on Twitter and Facebook.
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