One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century.
BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time. Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever. more 948 pages, Paperback First published JanuBook details & editions About the author Octavia E. Butler 4.46 439 ratings23 reviews Genres FictionScience FictionDystopiaFantasyPost ApocalypticTime Travel Speculative Fiction. Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves. Parable of the Sower / Parable of the Talents / Kindred Octavia E. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal. America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time. This is what makes Parable of the Sower even more impressive than it was when first published' GLORIA STEINEM'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI-We are coming apart. 'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come true. The extraordinary, prescient NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel.
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