A stunning new contemporary edition of Octavia E. Butler's award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower. With an introduction by Akwaeke Emezi.
'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans' GLORIA STEINEM
To understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.
There are many things Asha needs to know. How her country could embrace a presidential reign of terror and oppression, why the people turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother.
Reading the journals of Lauren Olamina, the mother she barely knew, Asha struggles to reconcile herself to the legacy of a woman caught between love for her daughter and her calling to lead humanity to a better future.
WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
Praise for Octavia E. Butler
'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI
'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN
'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ
'Butler's evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES
'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR
'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS
| ISBN: | 9781035441389 |
| Publication date: | 4th June 2026 |
| Author: | Octavia E Butler |
| Publisher: | Headline an imprint of Headline Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 416 pages |
| Genres: |
General Fiction Modern and Contemporary Fiction Classic fiction: general and literary Dystopian and utopian fiction |
A stunning new contemporary edition of Octavia E. Butler's award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower. With an introduction by Akwaeke Emezi.
'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans' GLORIA STEINEM
To understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.
There are many things Asha needs to know. How her country could embrace a presidential reign of terror and oppression, why the people turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother.
Reading the journals of Lauren Olamina, the mother she barely knew, Asha struggles to reconcile herself to the legacy of a woman caught between love for her daughter and her calling to lead humanity to a better future.
WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
Praise for Octavia E. Butler
'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI
'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN
'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ
'Butler's evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES
'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR
'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS
Parable of the Talents features in the following genres: General Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, Dystopian and utopian fiction
Parable of the Talents is available in Paperback
Parable of the Talents was written by Octavia E Butler and published by Headline an imprint of Headline Publishing Group
Parable of the Talents has 416 pages
£9.89