Margaret Atwood's books are consistently remarkable for their striking originality and depth. They have been repeatedly awarded 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 disaster and stepped beyond this brink; a world where almighty 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 girl has a direct path to the nightclub “Scales” - a favorite hot spot of both the cool guys from the Sump and the bigwigs from the guarded settlements of the Corporations.