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'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER

'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR But first he must reconcile with his own heritage in a world already torn in two. He also fears that, if left alone, humanity will destroy itself again.Īnd when young Akin is stolen from Lilith and their hybrid family, he soon faces an impossible choice. He understands the desire to fight for the independence of humanity. The first of his kind, Akin is more powerful than any other being. But there are those who resist the Oankali and the salvation they offer. The Oankali saved humanity years before, compelled by the desire to create an extraordinary new race of children. His family live together on Earth, but not in complete peace. Lilith's son Akin looks like an ordinary child. 'Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMESįrom the groundbreaking, award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: one young man with extraordinary gifts must reconcile his own heritage before he can change the fate of humanity. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans.