{"product_id":"parable-of-the-sower-the-new-york-times-bestseller","title":"Parable of the Sower","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmerica 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' LUPITA NYONG'O\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Octavia E. Butler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47281567498409,"sku":"9781472263667","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781472263667.jpg?v=1784768417","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/parable-of-the-sower-the-new-york-times-bestseller","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}