{"title":"Margaret Atwood","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"handmaids-tale-testaments-2-book-set-margaret-atwood-paperback","title":"The Handmaid's Tale 2 Books Collection Set by Margaret Atwood - Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitles in This Set\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Handmaid's Tale\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Testaments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nCondition: New\u003cbr\u003e\nFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN (The Handmaid's Tale): 9780099740919\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN (The Testaments): 9781784708214\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\nAge Range: Adult \/ Young Adult (16+)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOverview\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThis brand-new paperback set brings together Margaret Atwood's modern classic and its Booker Prize-winning sequel in one essential bundle. The Handmaid's Tale introduced readers to the terrifying Republic of Gilead, while The Testaments returns fifteen years later to reveal the regime's downfall through three interlocking narrators. Together they form one of the most celebrated works of dystopian fiction in modern literature, prized by book clubs, students, and general readers alike, and an ideal gift for anyone drawn to sharp, character-driven speculative fiction that continues to resonate with contemporary readers worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Handmaid's Tale is Atwood's seminal 1985 novel, narrated by Offred, a Handmaid stripped of her name, family, and freedom under the totalitarian regime of Gilead. Reduced to a single reproductive function, Offred survives through memory, quiet defiance, and fragile hope, all rendered in Atwood's spare, haunting prose. It remains one of the most widely studied works of twentieth-century fiction, its warnings feeling freshly urgent with every generation of readers who discover it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Testaments, published in 2019, picks up the story more than fifteen years later. Told through the testimonies of three women — one inside Gilead's inner circle and two who have never known anything else — the novel answers long-standing questions about the regime's inner workings and its eventual unravelling. It shared the 2019 Booker Prize, praised for expanding Atwood's world with fresh urgency and moral complexity. 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She won the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin and again, jointly, for The Testaments. Her 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale returned to bestseller lists decades after publication and inspired an award-winning television adaptation. 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Together they showcase Atwood's mastery of voice, power and resistance, making this set a superb introduction or a welcome addition for existing fans, book clubs, students of literary fiction, and anyone drawn to bold, socially urgent storytelling from one of the world's most acclaimed living authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/strong\u003e introduces Offred, a Handmaid in Gilead, a totalitarian regime that strips women of autonomy and reduces fertile women to vessels for reproduction. Offred's account of survival, memory and quiet defiance is a defining work of dystopian fiction, still urgently relevant today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Testaments\u003c\/strong\u003e picks up over fifteen years later, as cracks show in Gilead's iron rule. Told through three converging women's testimonies, this sequel expands Atwood's world with fresh perspectives on power and rebellion, and won the Booker Prize for its ambitious storytelling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Penelopiad\u003c\/strong\u003e turns to ancient myth, giving voice to Penelope, wife of Odysseus, as she recounts her own version of events. 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Set in a chillingly plausible near-future shaped by genetic engineering, corporate power, and ecological collapse, the trilogy traces humanity's unravelling and the fragile hope of what comes after. Atwood's sharp wit, inventive worldbuilding, and unforgettable characters have made this sequence a modern classic of dystopian literature, prized by book clubs, students, and dedicated fans of literary science fiction alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nOryx and Crake opens the trilogy through the eyes of Snowman, a man living in the wreckage of a genetically altered world, haunted by memories of the woman he loved and burdened with responsibility for the gentle, engineered Children of Crake. 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