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The Testaments: The Sequel To The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

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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 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.…

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"Would you recognize evil if you saw it? What about resistance? In The Testaments (Margaret Atwood’s long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale), readers get a deeper look into the conditions that created Gilead – a fundamentalist Christian dystopia that’s not quite as unimaginable as one might hope. In this society, where everyone’s options are some gradation of awful, a handful of women find ways to undermine the system. But even that resistance is fraught in a book that makes heroism look like the least glamorous choice available. The revolution is not televised, the revolutionaries don’t look like revolutionaries and the impeccably mannered bad guys just want everyone to be more civil."
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