Margaret Atwood’s breathtaking and provocative new novel takes us into a future at once all too familiar and beyond our imagining. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again. Margaret Atwood’s classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale is about the future. Now, in Oryx and Crake, the future has changed. Atwood says “Like the Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake is a speculative fiction…it invents nothing we haven’t already invented or started to invent.”
With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter.
Margaret Atwood’s books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her most recent novel, The Blind Assassin, won the 2000 Booker Prize. Her other novels include Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Robber Bride, Cat’s Eye, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Oryx and Crake is her eleventh novel.
