Parable of the Talents (Earthseed #2) -

Octavia E. Butler

Open Road

2012

434 páginas

14h 28m

ISBN-10: B004UNX7WG

As America rebuilds itself, bigotry threatens a peaceful haven.

Lauren Olamina was only eighteen when her family was killed, and anarchy encroached on her Southern California home. She fled the war zone for the hope of quiet and safety in the north. There she founded Acorn, a peaceful community based on a religion of her creation, called Earthseed, whose central tenet is that God is change. Five years later, Lauren has married a doctor and given birth to a daughter. Acorn is beginning to thrive. But outside the tranquil group’s walls, America is changing for the worse.

Presidential candidate Andrew Steele Jarret wins national fame by preaching a return to the values of the American golden age. To his marauding followers, who are identified by their crosses and black robes, this is a call to arms to end religious tolerance and racial equality—a brutal doctrine they enforce by machine gun. And as this band of violent extremists sets its deadly sights on Earthseed, Acorn is plunged into a harrowing fight for its very survival.

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".