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A stunning new contemporary edition of Octavia E. Butler's award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower. With an introduction by Akwaeke Emezi.<BR><BR>'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans' GLORIA STEINEM<BR><BR>To understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.<BR><BR>There are many things Asha needs to know. How her country could embrace a presidential reign of terror and oppression, why the people turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother.<BR><BR>Reading the journals of Lauren Olamina, the mother she barely knew, Asha struggles to reconcile herself to the legacy of a woman caught between love for her daughter and her calling to lead humanity to a better future.<BR><BR>WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL<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 with compelling precision' GUARDIAN<BR><BR>'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate 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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| Hersteller: | Hachette Ireland |
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