Parable of the Talents (Earthseed #2) -

Octavia E. Butler

Headline

2014

446 páginas

14h 52m

ISBN-13: 9781538732199

In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.

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.

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.

Octavia E. Butler's award-winning novel is an almost-prophetic take on a shockingly familiar and deeply relevant world.

Resenhas (4)

4 (Muito bom)

Assustadoramente visionário

Tão bom ou ainda melhor que o Parable of the Sower. Eu geralmente não gosto de medir a qualidade de livros de ficção científica pela sua qualidade premonitória, mas nesse caso aqui é assustadora a forma como Butler descreve os EUA do século XXI controlado por um autocrata religioso cujo slogan é "Make America Great Again".