ISBN: 147221482X 9781472214829

Category: Fiction / General

Page count: 300

<p><b>Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò.</b><br><br>'A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail' <b>NEW YORK TIMES</b><br><br>'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' <b>GUARDIAN</b><br><br>'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' <b>JUNOT DIAZ</b><br><br>In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave.<br><br>When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning. She saves his life - and it will happen again and again. Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them.<br><br>And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before it's even begun.<br><br><b>This is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time.</b><br><br>'No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential' <b>CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE</b><br><br><b>**MAJOR TV SERIES NOW ON DISNEY+**<br><br>PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER</b><br><br>'Unnervingly prescient and wise'<b> YAA GYASI</b><br><br>'Butler's 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><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>'Octavia Butler was a visionary' <b>VIOLA DAVIS</b><br><br>'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' <b>VANITY FAIR</b><br><br>'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct'<b> LUPITA NYONG'O</b></p>