玛格丽特·阿特伍德的作品已在35个国家出版,她撰写了40多部小说、诗歌和评论文章。除《使女的故事》外,她的小说还包括《猫眼》,入围1989年布克奖;《别名恩典》,获得加拿大吉勒奖和意大利蒙代罗奖;《盲目的刺客》,获得2000年布克奖;《Oryx and Crake》,入围2003年曼布克奖;《The Year of the Flood》;
在三部令人惊叹的小说中——《Oryx and Crake》、《The Year of the Flood》和《Maddaddam》,这位获得布克奖的畅销小说家将我们带入一个既熟悉又超出我们想象的不远的未来。
在《Oryx and Crake》中,一个男人在一个可能是人类快灭绝的世界里挣扎求生。为了寻找答案,他踏上了穿越郁郁葱葱的荒野的旅程,那里不久前还是一个伟大的城市,直到强大的公司将人类带入了一个不受控制的基因工程。在《The Year of the Flood》中,人们担心的无水洪水已经发生,改变了我们所知道的地球,并消灭了大多数的人类生命。在《Maddaddam》,一小群幸存者与克拉克的孩子们团结在一起:温柔的、经过生物工程改造的准人类物种将继承这个新的地球。
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.
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