num_pages: 422
description: When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom prison or death.With The Testaments the wait is over.Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in. --Margaret AtwoodAn alternate cover edition of ISBN 978-0385543781 can be found here.
language: English
title: The Testaments
publisher: Nan A. Talese