“…Some scholars read it as ecocriticism in its descriptions of a destroyed landscape devoid of animal life (see, for example, Grewe-Volpp 2013; Kollin 2011; Spurgeon 2011). Others interpret it as a discussion of ethics, morality and religion (see, for example, Carlson 2007;Gallivan 2008;Josephs 2013;Juge 2009;Vanderheide 2008;Wielenberg 2010). The novel has also been interpreted as a reworking of the Prometheus myth (Luttrull 2010) or the Grail narrative (Cooper 2011a), or as a postcolonial engagement with Robinson Crusoe (Hicks 2016).…”