Oryx y Crake

by Margaret Atwood

Paperback, 448 pages

Spanish language

Published by Salamrandra.

ISBN:: 978-84-18363-64-1

(8 reviews)

Una conmovedora historia sobre el último habitante del planeta en un inquietante mundo postapocalíptico.

Oryx y Crake es una inolvidable historia de amor y una conmovedora imagen de un cercano e inquietante horizonte postapocalíptico.

Conocido como Jimmy antes de que el planeta se viese asolado por una serie de desastres naturales, Hombre de las Nieves llora la pérdida de Crake, su mejor amigo, y de la bella y esquiva Oryx, de quien ambos estaban enamorados, mientras lucha por sobrevivir en absoluta soledad sobre la faz de la Tierra.

A merced de los elementos, acechado por los recuerdos y sin más compañía que la de los Hijos de Crake, esos seres de ojos verdes que lo consideran una especie de profeta, Hombre de las Nieves se pregunta cómo ha podido cambiar todo en tan poco tiempo y emprende un doble viaje hacia su pasado y hacia la burbuja de alta tecnología …

Una conmovedora historia sobre el último habitante del planeta en un inquietante mundo postapocalíptico.

Oryx y Crake es una inolvidable historia de amor y una conmovedora imagen de un cercano e inquietante horizonte postapocalíptico.

1 edition

Caffeneko reviewed Oryx y Crake by Margaret Atwood

Review of 'Oryx y Crake' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I was not able to finish this book. The dystopian predictions are quite real but the crass ugliness that she writes about and the mentality of the broken protagonist were too hard to bear over time. Reading this felt like subjecting myself to a degraded experience and I get enough of that reading the news in 2020. Perhaps that is part of dystopian fiction...but in our current times it cut too close.

Kadomi reviewed Oryx y Crake by Margaret Atwood

Review of 'Oryx y Crake' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I am so torn over this book! The writing I thought was phenomenal. The dystopian world Margaret Atwood builds in this book is disturbing. And yet, it's written in such a way that I definitely could see this as a possible future. From the splicing, to the way that society is split into Compounds and Pleebland. The terrible gene experiments. Let me just say ChickieNobs, ew. Especially the stuff the teenagers do, all those horrible web sites they look at. I personally know American teenagers who admit to having watched snuff videos online, so what Jimmy and Crake are doing is only an extension of that.

The title of the book is maybe misleading, because while Oryx is always looming in the background, you really do not really learn much about her. The chapter about her childhood though, I thought was traumatizing stuff.

I liked the buildup. You see everything from the eyes of the protagonist of the story, Snowman, in his former life Jimmy, and from his childhood onwards he slowly reveals what really happened to have left him as the lone survivor of a major catastrophe. It definitely made me keep on reading and reading, eager to find out more, always more.

The end left me frustrated and is the reason this is not 5 stars for me. It doesn't answer some of my questions. Why did Crake really start the epidemic? What was his masterplan? Did he really just want to wipe out humanity and rule over his Children, nothing else? Why keep Jimmy immune? Why did he slit Oryx' throat? I was mad at Jimmy for just having shot him. I felt I didn't get closure. And then the ending? What exactly is Snowman going to do? Is he going to shoot the other survivors or join with them? I have no idea. Aaargh. Frustrating.