The witnesses

The gripping sequel to Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" – awarded the Booker Prize 2019. "And so I rise, into the darkness inside or into the light." When the door of the van slammed shut at the end of "The Handmaid's Tale," leaving Desfred's fate uncertain for readers and listeners, what awaited her: freedom? Prison? Death? The wait is over! With "The Testaments," Margaret Atwood picks up the thread of the narrative fifteen years later, through three explosive testimonies from three narrators in the totalitarian nightmare state of Gilead. Margaret Atwood was primarily inspired to write this novel by two things: the audience's questions about the state of Gilead and its nature, as well as the world we live in.