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The Testaments

by Margaret Atwood

Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel · 2020 · ShortlistBooker Prize · 2019 · WinnerWomen's Prize for Fiction · 2019 · ShortlistGoodreads Choice Awards – Fiction · 2019 · Winner
DoubledaysffISBN 9780385543781

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2020Shortlist
Booker Prize2019Winner
Women's Prize for Fiction2019Shortlist
Goodreads Choice Awards – FictionFiction2019Winner

About This Book

The long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, told through three women's testimonies: Aunt Lydia, the compromised founder of the Gilead system; Agnes, a girl raised in Gilead; and Nicole, a young woman in Canada who has grown up in the shadow of Gilead's reach. Together they form a picture of a regime beginning to crack from within.

About the Author

Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She spent much of her childhood in northern Quebec due to her father's entomological research, not attending school full-time until age twelve. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 and earned an MA from Radcliffe College in 1962. Read more →

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