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The Testaments - Booker Prize Winner 2019

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Zusatztext “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. ” —Boston Globe   “ A rare treat  . . . a corker of a plot! culminating in a breathless flight to freedom.” —Laura Miller! Slate.com Informationen zum Autor Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade.   Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Klappentext #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood's classic, The Handmaid's Tale. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways. With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.1 | The Ardua Hall Holograph Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one while still alive. Already I am petrified. This statue was a small token of appreciation for my many contributions, said the citation, which was read out by Aunt Vidala. She’d been assigned the task by our superiors, and was far from appreciative. I thanked her with as much modesty as I could summon, then pulled the rope that released the cloth drape shrouding me; it billowed to the ground, and there I stood. We don’t do cheering here at Ardua Hall, but there was some discreet clapping. I inclined my head in a nod. My statue is larger than life, as statues tend to be, and shows me as younger, slimmer, and in better shape than I’ve been for some time. I am standing straight, shoulders back, my lips cu...

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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.
Boston Globe

 
A rare treat . . . a corker of a plot, culminating in a breathless flight to freedom.
Laura Miller, Slate.com

Product details

Authors Anonymous, Margaret Atwood
Publisher Nan A Talese
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.09.2019
 
EAN 9780385543781
ISBN 978-0-385-54378-1
No. of pages 419
Dimensions 165 mm x 242 mm x 35 mm
Series Der Report der Magd / The Handmaid's Tale
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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