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Parable of the Sower

Series: Parable #1

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From a celebrated, award-winning author, a modern classic about a young girl fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world, perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Margaret Atwood.

Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic crisis. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy--a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions.

Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.

Includes a foreword by LeVar Burton and an afterword by N. K. Jemisin

Book Details

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

First Published: 1993

Pages:

  • Hardcover: 336
  • Paperback: 368

ISBN:

  • Hardcover: 9781609807191
  • Paperback: 9781538732182

Physical Information:

  • Hardcover: 1.3" H x 8.3" L x 5.9" W (1.1 lbs)
  • Paperback: 1.0" H x 8.05" L x 5.25" W (0.81 lbs)
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About the Author

Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was the renowned author of numerous groundbreaking novels including Kindred, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work, in 1995 she became the first science-fiction writer to win the MacArthur Fellowship. An Afrofuturist pioneer, her dystopian novels explore myriad themes of Black injustice, women's rights, global warming, and human survival, and her work is taught in over two hundred colleges and universities nationwide.

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