«Atwood has long since established herself as one of the best writers in English today, but Oryx and Crake may well be her best work yet.. Brilliant, provocative, sumptuous and downright terrifying.» -The Baltimore Sun

With the same lethal blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her now classic The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly pre-scient novel about the future of humanity- and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, who lives in a tree because genetically engineered wolvogs and pigoons make the ground too dangerous. His only company are the beautiful, placid creatures who have replaced Homo sapiens.

To tell how this came about, Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when Snowman was named Jimmy. When he loved an elusive, degraded girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake, who wanted to correct some glitches in the human experiment. Out of their relationship comes a book that is at once a nightmarish revision of Genesis and an all-too-plausible postscript to Apocalypse.

«Her shuddering post-apocalyptic vision of the world… summons up echoes of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess and Aldous Huxley…. Oryx and Crake [is] in the forefront of visionary fiction.»-The Seattle Times