the parable of the talents octavia butler

Lauren Olamina was only eighteen when her family was killed, and anarchy encroached on her Southern California home. ‘Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing.Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel: The powerful and compelling sequel to the dystopian classic Parable of the Sower ‘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 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. ‘Unnervingly prescient and wise’ YAA GYASI BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 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. 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’. 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 order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.Īsha was born into a broken world. I think she can help each of us to do the same’ GLORIA STEINEM ‘Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans.

‘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

The stunning sequel to Parable of the Sower, the NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel.

The parable of the talents octavia butler