Hardcover, 376 pages

English language

Published May 6, 2003 by Nan A. Talese.

ISBN:
978-0-385-50385-3
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Margaret Atwood's classic novel The Handmaid's Tale is about the future. Now, in Oryx and Crake, the future has changed.

As the story opens, the narrator, who calls himself Snowman, is sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. In a world in which science-based corporations have recently taken mankind on an uncontrolled genetic-engineering ride, he now searches for supplies in a wasteland. Insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the Pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is Snowman left with nothing but his bizarre memories - alone except for the more-than-perfect green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of …

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Subjects

  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
  • Genetic engineering -- Fiction
  • Male friendship -- Fiction
  • New York (State) -- Fiction