Parable of the Talents
A Nebula Award-winning novel of a terrifying dystopian future
by Octavia E. Butler
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Pub Date 20 Aug 2019 | Archive Date 3 Sep 2019
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Description
'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' New Yorker
In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.
Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother.
In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches 'God Is Change'. But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her daughter and her followers - or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny.
Octavia E. Butler's award-winning novel is an almost-prophetic take on our world today.
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Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781472263650 |
PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 400 |