Parable of the sower / Octavia E. Butler.
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TextPublisher: London : Headline, 2019Copyright date: ©1993Description: 311 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472263667 :; 1472263669 ;Subject(s): African Americans -- Fiction | Twenty-first century -- Fiction | California, Southern -- FictionDDC classification: 813.6 Summary: We are coming apart.
We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time. America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe.
Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal. Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves.
Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.
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First published: New York : Four walls eight windows, 1993.
First published in Great Britain: London : Headline, 2014.
We are coming apart.
We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time. America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe.
Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal. Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves.
Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.
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