Parable of the Talents (Earthseed #2) -

Octavia E. Butler

Seven Stories Press

2017

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-10: 1609807200

Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. Long awaited, Parable of the Talents is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the heroine of 1994's Nebula-Prize finalist, bestselling Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Talents is told in the voice of Lauren Olamina's daughter--from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life--with sections in the form of Lauren's journal. Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U.S. presidency, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder, and where the basic physical and emotional needs of people seem almost impossible to meet.

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".