The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

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Description

The Testaments is a 2019 novel by Margaret Atwood. It 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 (1985), which is the prequel to The Testament. 

More than fifteen years after the event of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs of rotting from the within and going towards vanishing. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. 

The Testament is narrated by Aunt Lydia - A character from the previous novel; Agnes - A young woman living in Gilead; and Daisy - A young woman living in Canada. 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 Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways. With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost working 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 Testaments was a joint winner of the 2019 Man Booker Prize, alongside Bernardine Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, other. It was also voted Best Fiction novel in the Goodreads Choice Awards, 2019.

  

Margaret Atwood wrote The Testament in coordination with the ongoing television series of The Handmaid's Tale. The novel was released simultaneously as a book (novel) and as an audiobook. In a separate adaption, BBC Radio 4 serialized the novel in 15 quarter-hour episodes.

About the Author

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. She has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, 9 collections of short fiction, 8 children's books, and 2 graphic novels, as well as a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and power politics. Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales.

Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including the Booker Prize, Arthur C. Clark Award, Governor General's Award, Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, the National Book Critics, and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television, increasing her exposure. She is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and Writer's Trust of Canada. She is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto. 

She is also the inventor of the LongPen device and associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents.

Margaret Atwood

Link to the review of prequel of The Testaments:- 

The Handmaid's Tale

https://bookreviewsbyarti.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-handmaids-tale.html

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Rating: 4.6/5

Author: Margaret Atwood

Publisher: Nann A. Talese (First Edition)

Publishing Date: September 10, 2019 (First Edition)

Edition Language: English

Genre: Literary Criticism & Theory, Dystopian Fiction, Literary Fiction

ISBN-10: 0385543786

ISBN-13: 978-0385543781

Pages: 432

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