Fledgling

Octavia E. Butler's extraordinary final novel

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<p>'The Octavia Butler novel for our times' <b>THE ATLANTIC</b><br><br>'My book of the year . . . completely devours the genre which gave rise to it' <b>JUNOT DÍAZ</b><br><b><br>The final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler.</b><br><br>A young girl wakes up in the woods, gravely injured and alone, with no memory of what happened or who she is.<br><br>As Shori heals, she realises that she isn't like the people around her, which leads to a shocking discovery. She is a fifty-three-year-old vampire, and in terrible danger.<br><br>To save herself, Shori must learn anew everything about the power and desires that she holds, the life that was stolen from her - and those who want her dead.<br><br><b>PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR</b><br><br>'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' <b>NEW YORKER</b><br><br>'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' <b>GLORIA STEINEM</b><br><br>'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' <b>GUARDIAN</b><br><br>'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century' <b>JUNOT DIAZ</b><br><br>'Octavia Butler was a visionary' <b>VIOLA DAVIS</b><br><br>'Her 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>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781472281098

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

196 x 127 x 24 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Headline Publishing Group