Pakistan, Oct. 21 -- For the first time, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction was shared between two authors. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo won the 2019 edition of the prize for their works The Testaments and Girl, Woman, Other respectively.

Atwood, however, won this prize for the first time in 2000 for The Blind Assassin. Atwood's novel The Testaments is the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (2000). The Testaments resume the story from where it ends in The Handmaid's Tale. It was a dystopian novel set in a totalitarian Republic of Gilead located in New England.

While Offred was the protagonist in The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood introduces two new characters in The Testaments. They are Agnes and Daisy. Both are the daughters of Offred. Th...