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<p><b>Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò.</b></p><p>'A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail' <b>NEW YORK TIMES</b></p><p>'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' <b>GUARDIAN</b></p><p>'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' <b>JUNOT DIAZ</b></p><p>In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave.</p><p>When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning. She saves his life - and it will happen again and again. Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them.</p><p>And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before it's even begun.<br><b><br>This is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time.</b></p><p>'No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential' <b>CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE</b></p><p><b>**MAJOR TV SERIES NOW ON DISNEY+**</b></p><p>PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER</p><p>'Unnervingly prescient and wise' <b>YAA GYASI</b></p><p>'Butler's evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human'<b> NEW YORK TIMES</b></p><p>'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' <b>GUARDIAN</b></p><p>'Octavia Butler was a visionary' <b>VIOLA DAVIS</b></p><p>'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' <b>VANITY FAIR</b></p><p>'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' <b>LUPITA NYONG'O</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781472258229

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 128 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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