Parable of the Sower

A beautiful new edition of a modern classic by celebrated, award-winning author, Octavia E. Butler. With an introduction by Levar Burton and an afterword by N.K. Jemisin.<BR><BR>'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' GLORIA STEINEM<BR><BR>We are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.<BR><BR>The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from the violence breaking out across America. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others, records everything she sees of the fracturing world in her journal.<BR><BR> One terrible night, her home is overrun, and Lauren sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.<BR><BR>But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of a better way to live - and the birth of a new faith that will change humanity forever. <BR><BR>Praise for Octavia E. Butler<BR><BR>'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI<BR><BR>'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis<BR>with compelling precision' GUARDIAN <BR><BR>'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate<BR>the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ<BR><BR>'Butler's evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES<BR><BR>'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR<BR><BR>'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS

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