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As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier.

He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. For readers of "Oryx and Crake," nothing will ever look the same again. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers.