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Parable of the Sower

the New York Times bestseller
  • Author
    • Octavia E. Butler
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A special hardback edition of Octavia E. Butler's bestselling novel, with new cover artwork by Monet Alyssa.

'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. This is what makes Parable of the Sower even more impressive than it was when first published' GLORIA STEINEM

'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI

We are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.

America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. 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.

Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves.

Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.
  • Published: Aug 20 2019
  • 196 x 128mm
  • ISBN: 9781472263667

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Press Reviews

  • Junot Diaz

    One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had
  • Guardian
    Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision
  • New York Times
    [Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human
  • The Pool
    No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential... If you've ever tweeted "All Lives Matter", someone needs to shove Kindred into your hand, and quickly
  • Harlan Ellison
    Kindred is that rare magical artifact . . . the novel one returns to, again and again
  • Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
    One cannot finish Kindred without feeling changed. It is a shattering work of art
  • BBC
    [A] must-read novel
  • Refinery 29
    Everyone should read at least one novel by the grand dame of science fiction, and Kindred is a perfect (and harrowing and disturbing and brilliant) place to start
  • Tor
    The immediate effect of reading Octavia Butler's Kindred is to make every other time travel book in the world look as if it's wimping out... This is a brilliant book, utterly absorbing, very well written, and deeply distressing. It's very hard to read, not because it's not good but because it's so good
  • Kirkus
    A searing, caustic examination of bizarre and alien practices on the third planet from the sun
  • Los Angeles Times
    One of the most original, thought-provoking works examining race and identity
  • Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
    If you haven't read Butler, you don't yet understand how rich the possibilities of science fiction can be
  • Village Voice
    Butler's books are exceptional
  • Cory Doctorow

    Few writers in our field are so good at blending page-turners with philosophical questions so seamlessly
  • Independent
    A dark, compelling and still horribly resonant time travel story
  • Starburst
    Impossible to turn away from once you've devoured the first few pages