The year of the flood

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Sinopse

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: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away . . .By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.

Participantes

Autor: Margaret Atwood

Autor

MARGARET ATWOOD

Margaret Atwood, uma das escritoras mais admiradas mundialmente, nasceu na cidade canadense de Ottawa, em 1939. Graduou-se em Artes na Universidade de Toronto e foi professora de Literatura Inglesa em várias universidades canadenses. Após viver períodos nos EUA, na França, na Inglaterra, na Itália e na Alemanha, hoje mora em Toronto. Recebeu diversos prêmios, como o Man Booker Prize de 2000 por O Assassino cego, Chevalier de l’Ordre dês Arts e dês Lettres e o Príncipe de Astúrias de 2008 pelo conjunto de sua obra, entre outros. Seus livros foram traduzidos para mais de trinta idiomas. É autora de mais de 35 obras de poesia, prosa e não ficção, entre elas O conto da aia, Dançarinas, Lesão corporal, Madame Oráculo, Olho de gato, A vida antes do homem, Vulgo Grace, O assassino cego, Oryx & Crake, Negociando com os mortos, A tenda e Buscas curiosas, todos publicados no Brasil.