The Testaments
A Novel
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2020
- Category
- Dystopian, Contemporary Women, Literary
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780771009433
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $35.00
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CD-Audio
- ISBN
- 9780771009464
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $32.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780771009457
- Publish Date
- Sep 2020
- List Price
- $22.00
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.
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 voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets.
As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she 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.
"The literary event of the year." —The Guardian
"The international literary event of the season." —Globe and Mail
"It's terrifying and exhilarating." —Judges of the Booker Prize 2019
About the author
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than fifty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, part of the Massey Lecture series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
Awards
- Long-listed, Scotiabank Giller Prize
- Winner, Booker Prize
Editorial Reviews
"The international literary event of the season."
—Globe and Mail
"A savage and beautiful novel that speaks to us today with unusual conviction and power."
—Peter Florence, Chairman, Booker Prize judging panel
"A chilling invitation no Atwood fan can resist . . . The Testaments reminds us of the power of truth in the face of evil."
—People
"A fast, immersive narrative that's as propulsive as it is melodramatic."
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"The women of Gilead are more fascinating than ever."
—NPR
"There may be no novelist better suited to tapping the current era's anxieties than Margaret Atwood."
—Entertainment Weekly
"One of the most anticipated sequels of the modern age . . . full of revealing backstories."
—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"A rare treat . . . a corker of a plot, culminating in a breathless flight to freedom."
—Laura Miller, Slate.com
"The literary event of the year."
—The Guardian
"It's terrifying and exhilarating."
—Judges of the Booker Prize 2019
