Lilith's Brood: The Complete Series (Paperback)
by Octavia Butler
Description
An epic, sensual, and disturbing Afrofuturistic trilogy of human transformation (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago) presented in a single volume.
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Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth.
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Centuries later, she is resurrected by miraculously powerful unearthly beings called the Oankali.
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Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children.
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This is their story.
About the Author
Octavia Butler was a renowned writer who received a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. She was the author of several award-winning novels including Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents and was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future. Sales of her books have increased enormously since her death as the issues she addressed in her Afrofuturistic, feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. She passed away on February 24, 2006.
Product Details
Category: Fiction
Language: English
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: New
ISBN-10: 0446676101
ISBN-13: 978-0446676106
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: June 01, 2000
Pages: 752
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