{"product_id":"9781035441389","title":"Parable of the Talents","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning new contemporary edition of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Octavia E. Butler's award-winning sequel to \u003ci\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/i\u003e. W\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eith an introduction by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAkwaeke Emezi.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans'\u003cb\u003e GLORIA STEINEM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are many things Asha needs to know. How her country could embrace a presidential reign of terror and oppression, why the people turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading the journals of Lauren Olamina, the mother she barely knew, Asha struggles to reconcile herself to the legacy of a woman caught between love for her daughter and her calling to lead humanity to a better future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Octavia E. Butler\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Unnervingly prescient and wise' \u003cb\u003eYAA GYASI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' \u003cb\u003eGUARDIAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' \u003cb\u003eVANITY FAIR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Octavia Butler was a visionary' \u003cb\u003eVIOLA DAVIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Butler, Octavia E.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54078713725265,"sku":"9781035441389","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/6478\/4209\/files\/9781035441389.jpg?v=1781608348","url":"https:\/\/thecommonpress.shop\/products\/9781035441389","provider":"The Common Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}