Parable of the Sower (Earthseed)
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4.4 • 247 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Octavia E. Butler paints a stunning portrait of an all-too-believable near future. As with Kindred and her other critically-acclaimed novels, Parable of the Sower skillfully combines startling visionary and socially realistic concepts. God is change. That is the central truth of the Earthseed movement, whose unlikely prophet is 18-year-old Lauren Olamina. The young woman's diary entries tell the story of her life amid a violent 21st-century hell of walled neighborhoods and drug-crazed pyromaniacs-and reveal her evolving Earthseed philosophy. Against a backdrop of horror emerges a message of hope: if we are willing to embrace divine change, we will survive to fulfill our destiny among the stars. For her elegant, literate works of science fiction, Octavia E. Butler has been compared to Toni Morrison and Ursula K. LeGuin. Narrator Lynne Thigpen's melodious voice will hold you spellbound throughout this compelling parable of modern society.
Customer Reviews
Awesome Book!!!
This might be the best book I read this year. Absolutely amazing. Slow start but most definitely worth reading!! Well done!👏🏾👏🏾
Comfort In Our Current Times
This book was both stressful due to our current reality but yet I could not turn away from it. This book, however, gave me hope that we shape our own future. I am not nostalgic for the past because it will never be that way again, this book helped. Octavia Butler writes beautifully. I immediately bought Parable of the Talents.
One of the most excellent and prolific reads
So grateful for this book and its many lessons.