ISBN: 1472281098 9781472281098

Category: Fiction / General

Page count: 320

<p>'The Octavia Butler novel for our times' <b>THE ATLANTIC</b><br> <br> 'My book of the year . . . completely devours the genre which gave rise to it' <b>JUNOT DÍAZ</b><br> <b><br> The final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler.</b><br> <br> A young girl wakes up in the woods, gravely injured and alone, with no memory of what happened or who she is.<br> <br> As Shori heals, she realises that she isn't like the people around her, which leads to a shocking discovery. She is a fifty-three-year-old vampire, and in terrible danger.<br> <br> To save herself, Shori must learn anew everything about the power and desires that she holds, the life that was stolen from her - and those who want her dead.<br> <br> <b>PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR</b><br> <br> 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' <b>NEW YORKER</b><br> <br> 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' <b>GLORIA STEINEM</b><br> <br> 'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' <b>GUARDIAN</b><br> <br> 'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century' <b>JUNOT DIAZ</b><br> <br> 'Octavia Butler was a visionary' <b>VIOLA DAVIS</b><br> <br> 'Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' <b>NEW YORK TIMES</b></p>