FINALIST FOR THE GILLER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK
A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

“Towering and intrepid. . . . Atwood does Orwell one better.” —The New Yorker

“Atwood at her playful, allegorical best.” —The Globe and Mail

“Majestic. . . . Keeps us on the edges of our seats.” —The Washington Post

“A powerful vision.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Biting, black humor and absorbing storytelling. . . . Atwood entices.” —USA Today

“Atwood’s great talent for narrative has never been displayed to better effect.” —Toronto Star

“A crackling read. . . . Atwood is one of the most impressively ambitious writers of our time.” —The Guardian

“Dances with energy and sophisticated gallows humor. . . . [Atwood’s] wry wit makes dystopia fun.” —PEOPLE

“Perfectly constructed, funny, and satiric. It is inventive yet prophetic, in fact, apocalyptic and weirdly feasible. . . . It is brilliant.” —Winnipeg Free Press

“[An] evocative tale of a nightmarish near-future—[Oryx and Crake] is an extraordinary work of art, one that reaffirms Atwood’s place at the apex of Canadian literature.” —Maclean’s

“This superlatively gripping and remarkably imagined book joins The Handmaid’s Tale in the distinguished company of novels (The Time Machine, Brave New World and 1984) that look ahead to warn us about the results of human shortsightedness.” —The Times

“Brilliantly constructed. . . . Jimmy and Crake grip like characters out of Greek tragedy. . . . Atwood herself is one of our finest linguistic engineers. Her carefully calibrated sentences are formulated to hook and paralyse the reader.” —The Daily Telegraph

“Atwood has long since established herself as one of the best writers in English today, but Oryx and Crake may well be her best work yet. . . . Brilliant, provocative, sumptuous and downright terrifying.” —The Baltimore Sun

“Oryx and Crake is Atwood at her best—dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry. Her gloriously inventive brave new world is all the more chilling because of the mirror it holds up to our own. Citizens, be warned.” —The Independent

“Wonderfully vivid, and the sardonic unveiling of future history makes for a strong narrative drive.” —National Post