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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.

Maddaddam Trilogy, 3 Vols.
MaddAddam
The Year of the Flood
Oryx and Crake

Aanbevolen leesvolgorde

  1. Oryx and Crake

    • 436bladzijden
    • 16 uur lezen

    Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility. 'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past' - Independent 'Gripping and remarkably imagined' - London Review of Books

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    4,0

  2. The Year of the Flood

    • 448bladzijden
    • 16 uur lezen

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—the second book of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, set in the visionary world of Oryx and Crake, is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. The long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. Among the survivors are Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Amid shadowy, corrupt ruling powers and new, gene-spliced life forms, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move, but they can't stay locked away.

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    4,1

  3. MaddAddam

    A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers - a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the God's Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers' reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is hallucinating; Amanda is in shock from a Painballer assault; and Ivory Bill yearns for the provocative Swift Fox, who is flirting with Zeb. Meanwhile, giant Pigoons and malevolent Painballers threaten to attack.Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood's unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world - a moving and dramatic conclusion to the internationally celebrated trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.

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    4,1

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  • Maddaddam Trilogy, 3 Vols.

    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

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