num_pages: 443
description: 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 prescient 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.
language: English
title: Oryx and Crake
titlecomplete: Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, #1)
characters: Crake, Oryx, Snowman
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Canada, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, Audiobook, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 260071
series: MaddAddam
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Sunburst Award
category: Canadian Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Roman étranger
publisher: Anchor Books