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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, Bk 1) (Large Print)
Oryx and Crake - MaddAddam, Bk 1 - Large Print Author:Margaret Atwood When the story opens, the narrator Snowman, self-named though not self-created, is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his companions Oryx and Crake as he, himself, slowly starves in a wasteland once the home of people and now the home of insects, pigoons and wolvogs. Snowman tries to understand the events that led ... more »to the decline of the world he knew. As he tries to piece together what has taken place -- why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? -- the narrative shifts to decades earlier in the double journey he takes -- into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.« less