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The opening volume of Butler's groundbreaking Lilith's Brood saga centres on an alien race eager to restore humanity to Earth - at a price.
One 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.
When 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.
She 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.
Over 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...
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781472281067
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 220 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 24 mm
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'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' - Junot Diaz
'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' - Guardian
'A dark, compelling and still horribly resonant time travel story' - Independent
'[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... If you've ever tweeted "All Lives Matter", someone needs to shove Kindred into your hand, and quickly' - The Pool
'Kindred is that rare magical artifact... the novel one returns to, again and again' - Harlan Ellison
'A searing, caustic examination of bizarre and alien practices on the third planet from the sun' - Kirkus
'One of the most original, thought-provoking works examining race and identity' - Los Angeles Times
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