Oryx and Crake

The man who now calls himself Snowman, once Jimmy, sleeps up a tree in a filthy bedsheet, starving by degrees in a jungle that recently was a city, perhaps the only human left. He mourns Crake, his closest friend, and Oryx, whom both men loved and whose voice still mocks him. Before the catastrophe he lived among the clever and wealthy in walled compounds run by biotechnology firms, shielded from the disorder of the pleeblands where everyone else lived. Now he seems to be in charge of the Children of Crake, green-eyed and too perfect, and he sets off through the overgrown ruins to understand how corporate gene-tinkering wrecked the world so quickly, and what part he played in it.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2003

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9780771008689 (McClelland & Stewart, Canada)

9780747562597 (Bloomsbury, United Kingdom)

9780385503853 (Nan A. Talese, United States)

9780385721677 (Anchor Books, United States)

9780349004068 (Virago, United Kingdom)

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