Margaret Atwood (geb. 1939): Maddaddam Trilogy Box, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Set in a darkly plausible future shaped by plagues, floods, and genetic engineering, these three novels take us from the end of the world to a brave new beginning. Thrilling, moving, a triumph of imagination, this trilogy confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community, and love.

Beschreibung

A boxed set (three trade paperbacks) of the internationally celebrated speculative fiction trilogy from one of the most visionary authors of our time, Margaret Atwood.

Set in a darkly plausible future shaped by plagues, floods, and genetic engineering, these three novels take us from the end of the world to a brave new beginning. Thrilling, moving, a triumph of imagination, this trilogy confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community, and love.

The novels in this trilogy have been called "towering and intrepid" ( The New Yorker ), "gripping" ( The New York Times ), and "just about everything you could want" ( The Washington Post ).

Rezension

"Lights a fire from the fears of our age. . . . Miraculously balances humor, outrage, and beauty." - The New York Times Book Review

"Towering and intrepid. . . . Atwood does Orwell one better." - The New Yorker

"Margaret Atwood is an utterly thrilling storyteller." - The Washington Post

"Enthralling. . . . Memorable characters, a tightly controlled pace and shockingly plausible scenes make it fly - to a mysterious, skin-prickling ending." - San Francisco Chronicle

"Atwood spins the most arresting alternate mythologies to our hell-bent world." - Los Angeles Times

Klappentext

A boxed set (three trade paperbacks) of the internationally celebrated speculative fiction trilogy from one of the most visionary authors of our time, Margaret Atwood.

Across three stunning novels-Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and Maddaddam-the best-selling, Booker Prize-winning novelist projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.

In Oryx and Crake, a man struggles to survive in a world where he may be the last human. In search of answers, he embarks on a journey through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. In The Year of the Flood the long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. And in Maddaddam a small group of survivors band together with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth.

Set in a darkly plausible future shaped by plagues, floods, and genetic engineering, these three novels take us from the end of the world to a brave new beginning. Thrilling, moving, and a triumph of imagination, the Maddaddam Trilogy confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community, and love.