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Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood

Following a global plague, a survivor named Snowman navigates a world transformed by corporate genetic engineering. He reflects on the collapse of human civilisation while living among a genetically modified species known as the Children of Crake.

Accession 33109 ISBN 0747562598 Publisher Bloomsbury
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