"When the Waterless Waters rise, Adam One used to say, the people will try to save themselves from drowning. They will clutch at any straw. Be sure you are not that straw, my Friends, for if you are clutched or even touched, you too will drown." After a difficult start in although with an already detailed universe Oryx and Crake, The Year of The Flood establishes itself as the best novel in the MaddAddam trilogy and one of the most compelling works from Margaret Atwood. This book goes beyond genetics and science. It's a book about human kind, beliefs and religion. PLOT This book focuses on the fates of those inhabiting the pleeblands (places not protected by big corporations, the general population, working class people), specifically, it focuses on Toby and Ren. Toby is trapped in the AnooYoo facility (a sort of beauty shop) while Ren is locked up in Scales and Tails (a brothel). Their stories are slowly unfolded as they do their best to survive the catas
Marvin O. Menjívar, nacido en 1993 en El Salvador. Soy amante de los idiomas y las artes, en especial la literatura. Escribo literatura contemporánea de ficción; misterio y suspenso son mi predilección, siempre con un toque de drama y con personajes ambivalentes que demuestran la complejidad de la naturaleza humana a través de diferentes matices. Mis novelas suelen tener como tema principal la venganza, el arrepentimiento, el rencor, la soledad y como contraparte la redención y la resignación.