The Year of the Flood
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Adam One, the kindly leader of God’s Gardeners — a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion — 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 been spared: Ren, a young trapeze-dancer, locked inside a high-end sex club; and one of God’s Gardeners, Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Have others survived?
By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and witty, The Year of the Flood unfolds Toby’s and Ren’s stories during the years prior to their meeting again. The novel not only brilliantly reflects to us a world we recognize but poignantly reminds us of our enduring humanity.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
In The Year of the Flood readers are returned to the nightmarish world first envisioned in Oryx and Crake, revisiting the events of that tale through the experiences and the theology of a back-to-nature cult called the God’s Gardeners. Atwood has written a brilliant mischievous, disturbing and prophetic, Dystopian vision of humankind’s future.
For having a unique blend of literature, environmental insight and the fantastic.