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S'està carregant… MaddAddamde Margaret Atwood
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![]() This book is the final book in the MaddAddam trilogy set in a dystopian near future where the human race has been decimated by a deadly virus, designed and intentionally released by radical scientist Crake. He hoped to replace humans with his biologically engineered race, colloquially known as the Crakers, a gentle and innocent species who revere the first human they met, Snowman the Jimmy. Jimmy has told them they were created by Crake, so they treat Crake as a god-figure. As this story opens, a small group of humans is making its way back to a shared camp between humans and Crakers. They have banded together in an attempt to increase the likelihood of survival. It is told by a small number of narrators. One of the primary protagonists is Toby, a woman who takes Blackbeard, a young Craker, under her wing, teaching him how to read, write, and tell stories. It is dystopian fiction that includes many challenges that humans would be facing in a post-apocalyptic scenario, including food sources, environmental devastation, alternative means of healing, and establishment of a new social structure. They must figure out how to deal with a violent human group called Painballers and genetically spliced wild animals. Themes include abuse of technology, sustainability, storytelling, inter-species cooperation, and morality/ethics. It is thought-provoking, as well as entertaining. Meses después de que la pandemia del Diluvio Seco haya borrado a casi toda la humanidad de la faz de la Tierra, Toby y Ren han rescatado a su amiga Amanda de las garras de los despiadados paintbalistas. Juntas, regresan a la cabaña de los locoadánidas. Cuyo reticente profeta, Jimmy -Hombre de las Nieves-, debilitado a causa de la fiebre, hace que Toby tenga que predicar la teología de los crackers. Zab, por su parte, ha estado buscando a Adán Uno, fundador de los Jardineros de Dios, la religión ecologista y pacifista de la que él mismo se desvinculó años atrás para guiar a los locoadánidas en su resistencia activa contra la acción destructora de SegurMort. La última y emocionante entrega de MaddAddam, la gran trilogía distópica de Margaret Atwood aclamada a nivel internacional.
Atwood's prose miraculously balances humor, outrage and beauty. ... It's a pleasure to read a futuristic novel whose celebration of beauty extends to the words themselves. And words are very important here; by the moving end of "MaddAddam," we understand how language and writing produced the beautiful fiction that described our beginnings. MaddAddam is slightly crazed, usually intriguing and often great fun. I would have enjoyed it even more, however, were it not for the nagging voice that said: instead of this, we might have had another Alias Grace, or another The Blind Assassin. Pertany a aquestes sèriesPremisDistincionsLlistes notables
Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and giant Pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasihuman species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. While their reluctant prophet, Jimmy--Crake's one-time friend--recovers from a debilitating fever, it's left to Toby to narrate the Craker theology, with Crake as Creator. She must also deal with cultural misunderstandings, terrible coffee, and her jealousy over her lover, Zeb. Meanwhile, Zeb searches for Adam One, founder of the God's Gardeners, the pacifist green religion from which Zeb broke years ago to lead the MaddAddamites in active resistance against the destructive CorpSeCorps. Now, under threat of an imminent Painballer attack, the MaddAddamites must fight back with the aid of their newfound allies, some of whom have four trotters. At the center is the extraordinary story of Zeb's past, which involves a lost brother, a hidden murder, a bear, and a bizarre act of revenge. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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