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The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
(Adult Fiction)
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The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood's classic, The Handmaid's Tale.
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.
Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.
With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.
Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include Cat's Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award. She lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson.
"A chilling invitation no Atwood fan can resist . . . The Testaments reminds us of the power of truth in the face of evil."
"Margaret Atwood's powers are on full display . . . Everyone should read The Testaments."
"A fast, immersive narrative that's as propulsive as it is melodramatic."
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"The Testaments is worthy of the literary classic it continues. That's thanks in part to Atwood's capacity to surprise, even writing in a universe we think we know so well."
"The women of Gilead are more fascinating than ever."
"There may be no novelist better suited to tapping the current era's anxieties than Margaret Atwood."
"Powerful, revealing, and engaging."
"A rare treat . . . a corker of a plot, culminating in a breathless flight to freedom."
—Laura Miller, Slate.com
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Publisher: Nan A. Talese
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