{"product_id":"parable-of-the-sower","title":"Parable of the Sower","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful new edition of a modern classic by celebrated, award-winning author, Octavia E. Butler. With an introduction  by Levar Burton and an afterword by N.K. Jemisin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come true' \u003cb\u003eGLORIA STEINEM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from the violence breaking out across America. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others, records everything she sees of the fracturing world in her journal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One terrible night, her home is overrun, and Lauren sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of a better way to live - and the birth of a new faith that will change humanity forever. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Octavia E. Butler\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Unnervingly prescient and wise' \u003cb\u003eYAA GYASI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis\u003cbr\u003ewith compelling precision' \u003cb\u003eGUARDIAN \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate\u003cbr\u003ethe impact she has had' \u003cb\u003eJUNOT DIAZ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Butler's evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' \u003cb\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' \u003cb\u003eVANITY FAIR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Octavia Butler was a visionary' \u003cb\u003eVIOLA DAVIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56414799135064,"sku":"9781035441372","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781035441372.jpg?v=1778764561","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/parable-of-the-sower","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}