Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include Cat's Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature.
"A chilling invitation no Atwood fan can resist . . . The
Testaments reminds us of the power of truth in the face of
evil."
--People
"Margaret Atwood's powers are on full display . . . Everyone should
read The Testaments."
--Los Angeles Times
"A fast, immersive narrative that's as propulsive as it is
melodramatic."
--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"The Testaments is worthy of the literary classic it continues.
That's thanks in part to Atwood's capacity to surprise, even
writing in a universe we think we know so well."
--USA Today
"The women of Gilead are more fascinating than ever."
--NPR
"There may be no novelist better suited to tapping the current
era's anxieties than Margaret Atwood."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Powerful, revealing, and engaging."
--The Boston Globe
"A rare treat . . . a corker of a plot, culminating in a breathless
flight to freedom."
--Laura Miller, Slate
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