Description
Fifteen years after the fall of one set of certainties in Gilead, a new generation of voices emerges from within the Republic’s iron grip. Told through three interwoven narrators, this sequel reveals how power is maintained, how faith is weaponized, and how small acts of resistance can ripple into something far larger than any one person intends. As the regime tightens its control over bodies, language, and belief, the women at the center of the story navigate surveillance, sacrifice, and the dangerous hope of change. Margaret Atwood’s razor-edged, darkly inventive style turns history into a warning—probing themes of authoritarianism, gendered oppression, and the stories societies tell to justify cruelty.
Available Editions
paperback
Vintage
Published Sep 10, 2019
413 pages
ISBN: 9780385543798
paperback
Rocco
Published Nov 13, 2019
ISBN: 9788532531568
paperback
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Published Jan 1, 2019
419 pages
ISBN: 9780385543781
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First Published
2019
Language
eng
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Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Testaments by Margaret Atwood.

