The Year of the Flood

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Margaret Atwood: The Year of the Flood (EBook, 2009, Bloomsbury Publishing)

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Langue : English

Publié 29 octobre 2009 par Bloomsbury Publishing.

ISBN :
978-1-4088-0324-0
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Numéro OCLC :
569906829

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The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners – a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, the preservation of all species, the tending of the Earth, and the cultivation of bees and organic crops on flat rooftops – has long predicted the Waterless Flood. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have avoided it: the young trapeze-dancer, Ren, locked into the high-end sex club, Scales and Tails; and former SecretBurgers meat-slinger turned Gardener, Toby, barricaded into the luxurious AnooYoo Spa, where many of the treatments are edible.Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda, or the MaddAddam eco-fighters? Ren's one-time teenage lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the CorpSeCorps, the shadowy and corrupt …

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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.