The Year of the Flood
Dystopian fantasy is familiar to this Booker award winner who has already sketched an alternative version of the future in her discomfiting novel The Handmaid’s Tale, which described a world in which women were reduced to the status of breeders and denied basic human rights.
If The Handmaid’s Tale was a warning about a rabid anti-feminist backlash, Oryx and Crake, and now The Year of the Flood, focus on the new hazards facing the human race: the terrifying consequences of genetic tinkering and a total environmental collapse.
