Oryx and Crake

Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons.  A man, once named Jimmy, now calls himself Snowman and lives in a tree, wrapped in old bed sheets. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility.

Welcome to the outrageous imagination of Margaret Atwood.

‘In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who’s a sad man; a jealous lover who’s in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past’

Lisa Appignanesi, Independent

‘The novel is about hubris and humans playing god – literally, in the case of Crake, the embittered genius whose secret project is responsible for the devastation that now surrounds Snowman’

Joan Smith, Observer

‘Superlatively gripping and remarkably imagined . . . the novel is simultaneously alive with literary resonances’ Peter Kemp,

Sunday Times

‘A success and a breakthrough ... a highly cinematic adventure story of daring and survival’
Elaine Showalter, London Review of Books