{"product_id":"dawn-liliths-brood-1-by-octavia-e-butler","title":"Dawn: Lilith's Brood 1 by Octavia E. Butler","description":"\u003cp\u003e'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century' JUNOT DIAZ\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel by the bestselling, award-winning author. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Ursula K. Le Guin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors or windows, she remembers a devastating war, and a husband and child long lost to her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe finds herself living among the Oankali, a strange race who intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of years before. They spared those they could from the ruined Earth, and suspended them in a long, deep sleep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver centuries, the Oankali learned from the past, cured disease and healed the world. Now they want Lilith to lead her people back home. But salvation comes at a price - to restore humanity, it must be changed forever...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately,\u003cbr\u003ewhat it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' LUPITA NYONG'O\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Literary Cat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53580777685256,"sku":"9781472281067","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/7688\/0392\/files\/9781472281067.jpg?v=1773394802","url":"https:\/\/literarycatbooks.myshopify.com\/products\/dawn-liliths-brood-1-by-octavia-e-butler","provider":"Literary Cat Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}