Testimony: contains 2 CDs

We must all pull together or we will all be hanging on separately. What if it doesn't? Even fifteen years after Fred's handmaiden fled the Republic of Gilead, a brutal government based on the enslavement of healthy women capable of bearing children persists in New England. The state of the rotten regime is now presented to us in turn by a trio of speakers whose positions could not be further apart. The orthodox Aunt Lydia, as a co-author of the Gilead ideology, meets Ágnes from the ranks of the local privileged, who has found herself as a novice in her convent due to the influence of the knitting. And the two are joined from across the border in free Canada by rebel Daisy, searching for ambiguities in her family tree. The triple voice of the narrators gradually reveals unsuspected connections and the well-known truth that history rhymes viciously. The Czechs also once learned the hard way that even a world distorted by totalitarianism is not black and white and would not survive without the grey zone of private motivations. And above all, it cannot do without love, which will always be stronger than death. The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling The Handmaid's Tale. The book won the 2019 Booker Prize for Novel of the Year. Interpreter: Tatjana Medvecká, Veronika Khek Kubařová, Eva Josefíková, Martin Myšička length of recording: 14 hours 10 minutes