The Handmaid's Tale and the Testaments Box Set - Paperback

by Margaret Atwood (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS This beautifully designed box set of Margaret Atwood's bestselling companioned novels, The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments will make the perfect gift. In The Handmaid's Tale (311 pages; Publication date March 16, 1998), environmental disasters and declining birth rates have led to a 2nd American Civil War and the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead's Commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. In The Testaments (448 pages; Publication date: September 1, 2020) set more than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, The Republic of Gilead maintains its repressive grip on power, but it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the l