The Testaments: The Sequel to the Handmaid's Tale

ISBN-13: 9780385543781 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 432 str.

Margaret Atwood

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In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for herfreedom, prison or death.

With The Testaments, the wait is over.

Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.



"Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." Margaret Atwood

Recenzje

A chilling invitation no Atwood fan can resist . . . The Testaments reminds us of the power of truth in the face of evil.
People
 
Margaret Atwood s powers are on full display . . . Everyone should read The Testaments.
Los Angeles Times
 
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.
USA Today
 
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
 
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 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.