The Year of the Flood

The Year of the Flood is the second book in Canadian author Margaret Atwood's dystopian trilogy and was released on September 22, 2009, in Canada and the United States, and on September 7, 2009, in the United Kingdom. The work was listed in a number of newspaper review pieces predicting important fiction in 2009.

The story focuses on the God's Gardeners, a religious cult comprised of survivors of the same biological disaster detailed in Atwood's earlier work Oryx and Crake. The organization was mentioned briefly in the previous novel. The story is narrated through the perspectives of the protagonists' Ren and Toby, with Oryx and Crake, as well as Jimmy and Crake, playing minor parts. Atwood continues to investigate the impact of science and technology on this afflicted planet, focusing on the issue of religion through the God's Gardeners, an ecologically minded religious movement.

It addresses several of Oryx and Crake's questions, develops and expands on some of the characters from the previous novel, and exposes the identity of the three human figures that appear at the close of the first book. This is the second novel in Margaret Atwood's trilogy, the third being MaddAddam. However, Atwood considers them 'simultaneous', with the three novels all taking place at the same time and not in chronological order.

Detailed information:

Author: Margaret Atwood
Language: English
Genre: Speculative fiction

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