A stunning and provocative fresh novel from the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, champion of the Booker Prize

Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that visitors may find their watch of the world forever changed after reading it.

That is Margaret Atwood on the absolute peak of her powers. For visitors of Oryx and Crake, nothing at all will ever look the same again.

The narrator of Atwood’s riveting about Oryx and Crake novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he’s sleeping within a tree, putting on a vintage bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and gradually starving to loss of life. He searches for supplies within a wasteland where bugs proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once resided, as well as the Substances that sheltered the amazing. As he tries to piece together what offers taken place, the narrative shifts to years earlier. How did everything fall apart therefore quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting recollections? Alone aside from the green-eyed Kids of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the dual journey he takes – into his very own past, and back again to Crake’s high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Task unfolded as well as the world found grief.

With breathtaking command of her shocking materials, and with her customary clear wit and dark humour, Atwood tasks us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams very long following the last chapter. That is Margaret Atwood in the overall top of her capabilities.