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''The Year of the Flood'' is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, released on September 22, 2009 in Canada and the United States, and on September 7, 2009, in the United Kingdom.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood ) 〕 The novel was mentioned in numerous newspaper review articles looking forward to notable fiction of 2009.〔 〕〔 〕 The book focuses on a group called God's Gardeners, a small community of survivors of the same biological catastrophe depicted in Atwood's earlier novel ''Oryx and Crake''. The earlier novel contained several brief references to the group. It answers some of the questions of ''Oryx and Crake'' and reveals the identity of the three real human figures who appear at the end of the earlier book and sets the scene for the final book of the trilogy, ''MaddAddam''.〔 〕 ==Plot== ''The Year of the Flood'' details the events of ''Oryx and Crake'' from the perspective of the lower classes in the pleeblands, specifically the God's Gardeners. God's Gardeners are devoted to preserving all plant and animal life, and they predict a disaster (The Waterless Flood according to the Gardeners, known by the readers to be Crake's viral pandemic) will radically alter the Earth. The plot follows two characters, Toby and Ren, whose stories intertwine with each other and, at points, with major characters from ''Oryx and Crake''. Much of the story is told through flashback with the two main characters separately surviving the apocalypse described in the previous novel, both reminiscing about their time in the God's Gardeners religious movements and the events that led to their current positions. Toby is a young woman who loses her family, blaming the corporations, and is forced to work in a low-quality burger joint. She soon encounters the unwelcome attention of the brutish manager of the chain who is depicted as grooming and assaulting women in his employ. Adam One, depicted as a self-proclaimed messiah but perceived by outsiders as a cult leader, saves Toby from the manager and takes her to the sanctuary of his rooftop garden. Toby becomes an influential member of the gardeners and encounters Ren, a child member of the gardeners. Ren eventually grows up to become a trapeze dancer in the sex club Scales and Tails, and happens to be locked in a bio-containment unit in the club when the pandemic occurs. Similarly, Toby is barricaded within a luxury spa where she has begun to work following the gardener's raid. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Year of the Flood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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