The year of the flood is a novel by canadian author margaret atwood the second book of her dystopian trilogy released on september 22 2009 in canada and the united states and on september 7 2009 in the united kingdom the novel was mentioned in numerous newspaper review articles looking forward to notable fiction of 2009 the book focuses on a religious sect called the gods gardeners a small community of survivors of the same biological catastrophe depicted in atwoods earlier novel oryx. The year 25 is referred to as the year of the flood we are not told when or why the years have been reset the flood is metaphorically used to describe the pandemic that is set in motion by crake in the first novel that ends up for all intents and purposes wiping out the human species. Ksiazka the year of the flood autorstwa atwood margaret dostepna w sklepie empikcom w cenie przeczytaj recenzje the year of the flood zamow dostawe do dowolnego salonu i zaplac przy odbiorze. The year of the flood isnt prophecy but it is eerily possible jeanette winterson margaret atwood has outdone and outsung herself this time the year of the flood is at once a solemn praise song to human hope and a dead serious poke at our capacity for self destruction