Parable of the Sower Paperback - 2019

In acclaimed science-fiction author Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, we find the world in 2025, crippled by global warming, pollution, and socio-cultural tensions.

'Hyperempath' Lauren Olamina, a black teenager living just outside Los Angeles, flees with her community to escape the dangerous pyromaniacs who are destroying the remainders of civilization.  As she flees, she begins to preach her philosophy, her religion, called 'Earthseed' to the other refugees.

"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists that control the fool
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."

This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author “pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid’s Tale” and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times). When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others’ emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.

Details

• Title Parable of the Sower
• Author Octavia E. Butler
• Binding Paperback
• Edition Reprint Edition
• Pages 368
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Grand Central Publishing
• Date 2019-04-30
• ISBN 9781538732182 / 1538732181
• Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
• Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
• Reading level 710
• Themes
  • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Topical: Coming of Age
• Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, African Americans
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019011221
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC