About the book: 2011 / For more than thirty years, the outstanding Canadian writer Margaret Atwood has been creating works of amazing originality and depth, repeatedly awarded with prestigious literary awards, including the Booker Prize (for “The Blind Assassin”), the Arthur C. Clarke Award (for “The Handmaid’s Tale”), the Governor General of Canada Literary Award, the Italian “Premio Mondello” and others. “The Year of the Flood” is an ambitious panorama of a world that stood on the brink of a man-made catastrophe—and stepped beyond that brink; a world where omnipotent genetic engineering rules the roost and only gardeners in their gardens try to preserve the diversity of living nature; a world in which a fur-haired girl has a direct route to the nightclub “Cheshuyki” - a favorite hotspot of both the tough guys from the Otsotnik and the bigwigs from the guarded settlements of the Corporations…