The Year of the Flood

, #2

First United States Edition, 434 pages

Langue : English

Publié 22 septembre 2009 par Doubleday Nan A. Talese.

ISBN :
978-0-385-52877-1
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The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.

Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers...

Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: …

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Das das Kümmern um die Erde und Gärtnern ein zutiefst politisches Tun sind, ist mir bereits in den letzten Jahren aufgegangen. Hier ist mein Buch dazu!
Margaret Atwood schafft es grandios, ein Szenario und Personen zu erschaffen. Ich glaube ihr jedes Wort.

Sujets

  • Environmental disasters -- Fiction
  • Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction