Kindred

Resumen del libro

Now in paperback comes the 1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel adaptation of Kindred, Octavia E. Butler's literary science-fiction masterpiece. First published in 1979, Kindred tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and mysteriously transported from her home in 1970s California to the antebellum South. Dana moves between worlds: one in which she is a free woman and another where she is part of a complicated familial history on a southern plantation, forced to interact with and save the life of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of her ancestors. Frightening, compelling, and richly detailed, Kindred takes an imagined yet unstinting look at our complicated social history. Adapted by celebrated academics Damian Duffy and John Jennings with the full cooperation of the Butler estate, the paperback edition of Kindred explores the violence, loss of humanity, and twisted relationships engendered by slavery, in a format that introduces the work to a new generation of readers.

Biografía del autor

Octavia Estelle Butler, a menudo conocida como la "gran dama de la ciencia ficción", nació en Pasadena, California, el 22 de junio de 1947. Licenciada en Artes en 1947, con la publicación de x{0026} x0201C;Parentescox{0026} x0201D; en 1979, Butler logró ser escritora a tiempo completo. Ganó el Premio Hugo en 1984 por su cuento "Speech Sounds" y en 1985 su novela "Hijo de sangre" ganó un Premio Hugo, un Premio Nebula, el Premio Locus y un premio a la mejor novela de Science Fiction Chronicle. En 1995, se convirtió en la primera escritora de ciencia ficción en recibir la Beca "Genius" de la Fundación MacArthur.