{"product_id":"parable-of-the-talents-a-nebula-award-winning-novel-of-a-terrifying-dystopian-future","title":"Parable of the Talents","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis sequel to Parable of the Sowerby 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003eIn order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAsha 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOctavia E. Butler's award-winning novel is an almost-prophetic take on a shockingly familiar and deeply relevant world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat readers are saying about Octavia Butler:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Kindred was written in 1979 but could have been written last year. Incredible. I couldn't put it down'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Emotionally and viscerally alive and challenging. I don't know how I missed it before now'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A masterpiece by a matchless artist. Butler is simply sublime'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Reading these books will change your life'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A finely crafted work, rife with emotional power, horrifying in its believability, with a message that cannot be ignored'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Octavia E. Butler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47281567563945,"sku":"9781472263650","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781472263650.jpg?v=1784768490","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/parable-of-the-talents-a-nebula-award-winning-novel-of-a-terrifying-dystopian-future","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}