{"product_id":"parable-of-the-sower-by-octavia-e-butler-9781035441372","title":"Parable of the Sower","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA beautiful new edition of a modern classic by celebrated, award-winning author, Octavia E. Butler. With an introduction by Levar Burton and an afterword by N.K. Jemisin.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003eGLORIA STEINEM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from the violence breaking out across America. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others, records everything she sees of the fracturing world in her journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne terrible night, her home is overrun, and Lauren sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of a better way to live - and the birth of a new faith that will change humanity forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for Octavia E. Butler\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Unnervingly prescient and wise' \u003cb\u003eYAA GYASI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' \u003cb\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' \u003cb\u003eJUNOT DIAZ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Butler's evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' \u003cb\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' \u003cb\u003eVANITY FAIR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Octavia Butler was a visionary' \u003cb\u003eVIOLA DAVIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47734382690540,"sku":"9781035441372","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035441372-parable-of-the-sower.jpg?v=1781220477","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/parable-of-the-sower-by-octavia-e-butler-9781035441372","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}