The year of the flood

Books Margaret Atwood always have striking originality and depth. They have repeatedly been awarded prestigious literary awards, including the Booker prize (for "the Blind assassin"), Arthur C. Clarke Award (for "the handmaid's Tale"), the Literary award of the Governor General of Canada, the Italian "Premio Mondello" and others. "The year of the flood" is an ambitious panorama of a world standing on the brink of a man — made disaster-and stepped over the brink; the world, where reigns the Almighty genetic engineering, and only vertogradari in your garden try to preserve the diversity of nature; a world in which the girl medovushka a direct route to the nightclub "Scales" — a favorite cereal as tough guys from the Sump, and the gates of the protected villages Corporations.