Parable of the Talents 英文原版 奥克塔维亚·巴特勒：天才者的寓言

基本信息

Paperback: 400 pages

Publisher: Headline (August 20, 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1472263650

ISBN-13: 978-1472263650

Dimensions: 130 x 196 x 34mm | 278g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

This sequel to Parable of the Sower by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler feel like a prophetic nod to our current world. If you were glued to The Handmaid's Tale or couldn't put down The Power, you'll love this beautiful new edition of a seminal American classic.

'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' New Yorker

In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.

Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother.

In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches 'God Is Change'. But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her daughter and her followers - or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny.

Octavia E. Butler's award-winning novel is an almost-prophetic take on a shockingly familiar and deeply relevant world.

What readers are saying about Octavia Butler:

'Kindred was written in 1979 but could have been written last year. Incredible. I couldn't put it down'

'Emotionally and viscerally alive and challenging. I don't know how I missed it before now'

'A masterpiece by a matchless artist. Butler is simply sublime'

'Reading these books will change your life'

'A finely crafted work, rife with emotional power, horrifying in its believability, with a message that cannot be ignored'

为了让我了解我是谁，我必须开始了解她是谁。

阿莎出生于破碎的世界。她需要知道很多事情：她的国家如何接受一个暴力的极右翼总统，许诺使美国再次变得伟大，为什么他们对苦难视而不见-以及关于她母亲的真相。

劳伦·奥拉米娜（Lauren Olamina）在日记中讲述了年幼的女儿，她的社区和对她的启示之间的巨大爱意，使她发现了一种新的信仰，教导了“上帝就是改变”。但是在一个专横的宗教制度下，劳伦认为黑人女性领导人的存在是一个威胁，因此劳伦知道她必须尽快牺牲自己的女儿和追随者，或者放弃可能改变人类命运的信念。