The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwoods classic, The Handmaids 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.

Reviews

A chilling invitation no Atwood fan can resist . . .The Testaments reminds us of the power of truth in the face of evil.
People

Margaret Atwoods powers are on full display . . .Everyone should read The Testaments.
Los Angeles Times

A fast, immersive narrative thats as propulsive as it is melodramatic.
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

The Testaments is worthy of the literary classic it continues. Thats thanks in part to Atwoods capacity to surprise, even writing in a universe we think we know so well.
USA Today

The women of Gilead are more fascinating than ever.
NPR

There may be no novelist better suited to tapping the current eras anxieties than Margaret Atwood.
Entertainment Weekly

Powerful, revealing, and engaging.
Boston Globe

A rare treat. . . a corker of a plot, culminating in a breathless flight to freedom.
Laura Miller, Slate.com

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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cats Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaids Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade.

Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.