Parable of the Talents

A special hardback edition of Octavia E. Butler''s extraordinarily prescient novel, with new cover artwork by Monet Alyssa. ''Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same'' GLORIA STEINEM 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. WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

Product details

• Authors: Octavia E Butler, Octavia E. Butler, Butler Octavia E.
• Publisher: Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2024
• EAN: 9781035410095
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3541009-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 245 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Dystopian, Society & culture: general, Classic fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction