With breathtaking command of her shocking material and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into a conceivable future of our own world, an outlandish yet wholly believable place left devastated in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster and populated by characters who will continue to inhabit your dreams long after the book is closed
MaddAddam Reeks
Deze serie dompelt lezers onder in een huiveringwekkend plausibele toekomst waarin de mensheid worstelt met de gevolgen van haar eigen ongebreidelde ambitie. Het verkent meesterlijk de duistere kruispunten van genetische manipulatie, bedrijfsmacht en ecologische ineenstorting. Door verweven verhalen die de periode voor, tijdens en na de apocalyps bestrijken, onthult het verhaal de fragiliteit van de beschaving en de blijvende, zij het veranderde, menselijke geest. Het zijn diepgaande overpeinzingen over overleven, verlies en wat het werkelijk betekent om mens te zijn in een herschapen wereld.
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Year of the Flood
- 436bladzijden
- 16 uur lezen
Set in the near future, Attwood's dark, thoughtful and at times funny novel finds two women who have survived a cataclysmic environmental disaster - a young trapeze artist locked in a sex club and a 'God's Gardener' hiding in a luxury spa - and both must find their way out.
MaddAddam
- 394bladzijden
- 14 uur lezen
In this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, the Waterless Flood has wiped out most of the population. Toby is part of a small band of survivors, along with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth. As Toby explains their origins to the curious Crakers, her tales coheres into a luminous oral history that sets down humanity's past--and points toward its future. Blending action, humor, romance, and an imagination at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world, MaddAddam is vintage Atwood--a moving and dramatic conclusion to her epic work of speculative fiction.
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Maddaddam Trilogy, 3 Vols.
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Vol. 1: Oryx and Crake: At once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey - with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake - through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining