The Testaments: The Sequel to the Handmaid's Tale

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 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.

Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: 09/10/2019
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.7lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780385543781

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 507433 / Testaments


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2019 pg. 53
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 09/16/2019
Booklist 10/01/2019 pg. 26

About the Author
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's 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.