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Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman with the hereditary train of "hyperempathy"--which causes her to feel others' pain as her own--sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Butler, Octavia E.
- ISBN: 9781609807191
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 8.30 x 1.30
- Number Of Pages: 336
- Publication Year: 2017
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English
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Melvin S. - 5 years 3 months agoA beautiful and gripping novel. The graphic novel adaption is also fantastic.
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Contemporary US Dystopia
Tim M. - 5 years 4 months agoIn the last couple decades contemporary dystopia has become a popular subject, in film, TV and literature. Octavia Butler was ahead of the curve with 'Parable of the Sower'. Published in 1993 and set in 2023 is written by, just slightly, Looking Through the Glass Darkly. You could call it a “road story” as much of the novel takes place on the California’s highways and Interstates, as the main characters flee, on foot, a disintegrating Los Angeles for the assumed safety of Northern California. Ms. Butler is able to fill the pages with a sundry of plot twists and incidents, which made the book very compelling reading and sets the stage for the second volume, 'Parable of the Talents'. Ms. Butler got away from us much too soon, and we are the worse for it.
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Pickup C. - 5 years 4 months agoOne of the most important books I have ever read, Octavia Butler is practically a soothsayer with this story, and it is one I will never forget. #SpringPicks
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Beautiful and brutal
Anna B. - 6 years 1 month agoThis book was incredible. It had similar vibes to The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and although very different in writing style had the same poetic lyricism. To me, this book felt so real and visceral. I’m not one to love post-apocalyptic books usually, but this was so character driven, poignant, and thought provoking. I appreciated the commentary on racism and environmental justice. I loved it. TW: violent images particularly ones revolving around race and gender. Violence towed children and rape are also themes.
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Kayla H. - 6 years 2 months agoI read this book for my sci-fi class and expected to hate it, but actually ended up thoroughly enjoying it. The apocalyptic world that Octavia Butler created was terrifyingly realistic, especially in the current state of our world. The book is written as Lauren's journal and the typos are not as bad as others say. Overall an amazing book that I would recommend to anyone. #SummerReading