Parable of the Talents

<p><b>From the celebrated author, the thrilling sequel to <i>Parable of the Sower</i> - an extraordinary novel ahead of its time.</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> <i>In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she</i> <i>was.</i><br> <br> Asha 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.<br> <br> In 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.<br> <br> <b>PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER</b><br> <br> 'Unnervingly prescient and wise' <b>YAA GYASI</b><br> <br> '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. This is what makes <i>Parable of the Sower</i> even more impressive than it was when first published' <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> 'Octavia Butler was a visionary' <b>VIOLA DAVIS</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> '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>