The testaments / Margaret Atwood.
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 on opposite sides of the border: one in Gilead as the privileged daughter of an important Commander, and one in Canada, where she marches in anti-Gilead protests and watches news of its horrors on TV. The testimonies of these two young women, part of the first generation to come of age in the new order, are braided with a third voice: that of one of the regime's enforcers, a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets. Long-buried secrets are what finally bring these three together, forcing each of them to come to terms with who she is and how far she will go for what she believes.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771009464
- ISBN: 9780525590453
- Physical Description: 11 sound discs (13.5 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 inches.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, ℗2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Sequel to: The handmaid's tale. 11 audio compact discs in 2 containers. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Mae Whitman with Derek Jacobi, Tantoo Cardinal, and the author. |
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Subject: | Misogyny > Fiction. Women > Fiction. Surrogate mothers > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. |
Genre: | Fiction. Audiobooks. Dystopian fiction. Dystopias. |
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Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classicâand 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.
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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.
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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." âThe Guardian
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"The international literary event of the season." âGlobe and Mail
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"It's terrifying and exhilarating." âJudges of the Booker Prize 2019