Kindred

Resumen del libro

Octavia E. Butler's 1979 masterpiece and ground-breaking exploration of power and responsibility, for fans of The Handmaid's Tale, The Power and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing. With an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo.

' Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' New York Times 'No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential' The Pool In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning.

She saves his life - and it will happen again and again. Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them. And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before it's even begun.

Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time. What readers are saying about KINDRED:'It was written in 1979 but could have been written last year.

Incredible. I couldn't put it down' 'The narrator is us - we see the abomination and humiliation of slavery not through a slave's eyes, but our modern-day eyes, and it makes it all the more powerful' 'A must-read for everyone''Emotionally and viscerally alive and challenging. I don't know how I missed it before now'

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.