Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Published on February 6, 2026
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Atwood at her best: dark, dry, witty, and yet deeply moving. Her gloriously inventive brave new world is all the more chilling because of the mirror it holds up to our own. Her carefully calibrated sentences are designed to hook and paralyse the reader. Oryx and Crake is a parable, an imaginative text for the anti-globalisation movement. The novel looks ahead to warn us about the consequences of human short-sightedness.
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