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.

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Vintage

Published Sep 10, 2019

413 pages

ISBN: 9780385543798

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Rocco

Published Nov 13, 2019

ISBN: 9788532531568

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Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

Published Jan 1, 2019

419 pages

ISBN: 9780385543781

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First Published

2019

Language

eng

Content Warnings

Content and trigger warnings for The Testaments by Margaret Atwood.

Sexual Violence
Abuse
War/Trauma
Death/Grief