The Year Of The Flood Annette Lavers Author: Franz Kafka

Author: Franz Kafka

and she risks her life by throwing herself into the Thames to avoid a potential seducer

corrupt orphanage owners

By making the audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection - and could be treated with antiseptics - he changed the history of medicine forever

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The Year Of The Flood Annette Lavers Author: Franz KafkaThe sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood a manmade plague has ended the world. But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden.