Booker Prize Finalist

A New York Times Notable Book

#1 International Bestseller

The First Book of the MaddAddam Trilogy

Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey—with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake—through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.

“Towering and intrepid. . . . Atwood does Orwell one better.”

—The New Yorker

“Brilliant, provocative, sumptuous and downright terrifying.”

—The Baltimore Sun

“Oryx and Crake [is] in the forefront of visionary fiction.”

—The Seattle Times

“A book too marvelous to miss.”

—The San Diego Union-Tribune

“Majestic. . . . Keeps us on the edges of our seats.”

—The Washington Post

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