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The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

Two women survive a plague in a world run by corporations

2009Steady paceDark

What it is about

Toby and Ren are members of a green religious group called God’s Gardeners. When a plague called the waterless flood destroys most of humanity, they have to survive. The book runs parallel to Oryx and Crake.

Who will enjoy it

Readers who liked Oryx and Crake.

What you will get

The second MaddAddam book.

The Year of the Flood Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting

Genre

Science Fiction · Dystopia · Environment · Cult

Length

431 pages · ≈ 12 h

More about this book

Characters

Toby, Ren and the God’s Gardeners.

Setting

A near-future United States.

What makes it different

A companion to Oryx and Crake told from other points of view.

Feel

Dark, funny and strange.

About Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood5 books on Tori BooksCanadian writer, born in 1939. She won the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin in 2000 and shared it for The Testaments in 2019.

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