The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam #2)

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cetaps.researcherPereira, Teresa
dc.contributor.authorAtwood, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2/29/24 11:29
dc.date.available2/29/24 11:29
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThe second book of the MaddAddam trilogy, The Year of the Flood follows many of the events described in Oryx and Crake from the perspective of those belonging to the lower social classes and living in the “pleeblands”, located outside of the walled compounds owned by the multinational corporations that housed both Snowman and Crake. Among them are the God’s Gardeners, a vegetarian religious group that lives in a commune and that fuses biblical teachings with sustainable scientific practices, intended to preserve all forms of life. God’s Gardeners believe that there is an impending man-made catastrophe looming in the horizon, to which they refer as “The Waterless Flood”, an assumption that is partially proven right when Crake’s BlyssPluss pandemic decimates most of the world’s population. Two of the members of the God’s Gardeners, named Toby and Ren, are the main characters of the novel, and their individual stories intersect with each other and with Snowman’s and Crake’s own narratives.
dc.description.authorMargaret Atwood (1939-) was born in Ottawa and brought up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto, Canada. Published in more than forty-five countries, Atwood attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto and Radcliffe College, from which she respectively received her undergraduate degree and her MA. She’s the author of over fifty books, several of which have received numerous prizes, such as The Testaments (2019) and The Blind Assassin (2000), both Booker Prize winners.
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dc.genrescience fiction
dc.genrespeculative fiction
dc.genrepost-apocalyptic fiction
dc.genredystopia
dc.identifier.citationAtwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009.
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-7475-8516-9
dc.identifier.urihttps://cetapsrepository.letras.up.pt/id/cetaps/114155
dc.publisherBloomsbury Publishing
dc.publisher.cityLondon
dc.relation.translationAtwood, Margaret. O Ano do Dilúvio. Translation by Miguel Batista, Bertrand, 2011.
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dc.subjectgenetic engineering
dc.subjectextinction
dc.subjectpost-apocalypse
dc.subjectdystopia
dc.subjectscience fiction
dc.subjectecofiction
dc.titleThe Year of the Flood (MaddAddam #2)
dc.typebook
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person.familyNameAtwood
person.givenNameMargaret
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