The Testaments

Name: The Testaments
ISBN: 9780385543798

Margaret Atwood

2020·435 pages

Literary Fiction

classics dark dystopian dystopian society family dynamics family secrets

Former NYT Bestseller★ Booker Prize (2019) · Winner

“The Testaments is Atwood at her best . . . To read this book is to feel the world turning”
— Anne Enright

“Everything The Handmaid's Tale fans wanted and more. Prepare to hold your breath throughout, and to cry real tears at the end”
— Stylist

“Atwood challenges us constantly and poses the question that lies like a pearl inside the shell of this frighteningly readable novel, \"Before you sit in judgement, how would you behave in Gilead?''”
— Sunday Telegraph

“She manages to write about the darkest and most terrifying parts of human psychology in a way that is still deeply funny and full of dark strange hope”
— Naomi Alderman, author of The Power

A gripping return to Gilead, The Testaments exposes the regime’s inner decay through the intersecting stories of three women whose choices could ignite its downfall. Coming soon as a Hulu Original series starring Ann Dowd, reprising her role as Aunt Lydia, Chase Infiniti as Agnes, and Lucy Halliday as Daisy. The Testaments can be read on its own or as a sequel 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 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 that of Aunt Lydia, whose 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.

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The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

Former NYT Bestseller

★ Booker Prize (2019) · Winner

Year

2020

Pages

435

Literary Fiction

Praise

“The Testaments is Atwood at her best . . . To read this book is to feel the world turning”
— Anne Enright

“Everything The Handmaid's Tale fans wanted and more. Prepare to hold your breath throughout, and to cry real tears at the end”
— Stylist

“Atwood challenges us constantly and poses the question that lies like a pearl inside the shell of this frighteningly readable novel, \"Before you sit in judgement, how would you behave in Gilead?''”
— Sunday Telegraph

“She manages to write about the darkest and most terrifying parts of human psychology in a way that is still deeply funny and full of dark strange hope”
— Naomi Alderman, author of The Power