![]() ![]() 'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ 'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. 'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS 'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time. ![]() BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever. Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves. ![]() 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. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.Īmerica is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. 'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI This is what makes Parable of the Sower even more impressive than it was when first published' GLORIA STEINEM '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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