Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood

Reissues of suggestive works of science fiction in the absence of new stories with which to feed an imaginary between dystopian and post-apocalyptic in tune with the times. Except that Margaret Atwood She is not an ordinary science fiction writer. For her, the scenography accompanies the ideas rather than serves the recreation and setting. An atmosphere that, in any case, always falls under its own weight when a narrator like her brushes with that impressionistic and accurate trait for the imagination.

Although of course, all this of Atwood as a new champion of the dystopian is not accidental. Since the resurgence of a maid's tale eighties for a triumphant present to unsuspected limits in its serialized version for television, the commercial vision shoots up so that its MaddAddam Trilogy 1 started with this novel again lead us to ecstasy on the platform of the day.

Known as Jimmy before the planet was ravaged by a series of natural disasters, Snowman mourns the loss of Crake, his best friend, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx, with whom they were both in love, as he struggles to survive. in absolute solitude on the face of the Earth.

At the mercy of the elements, haunted by memories and with no other company than that of the Sons of Crake, those green-eyed beings who consider him a kind of prophet, Snowman wonders how he has been able to change everything in such a short time. and embarks on a double journey into his past and into the high-tech bubble created by Crake, the place where it all began.

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