{"product_id":"parable-of-the-sower","title":"Parable of the Sower","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in 1993, Octavia E. Butler’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e imagines a near-future California fractured by climate catastrophe, poverty and social collapse. Told through the journal of fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina, the novel follows her life inside a walled community outside Los Angeles, where insecurity is mounting and the protections of ordinary society are steadily disappearing. When violence destroys the fragile world she has known, Lauren sets out north with a small group of survivors, carrying the beginnings of a new spiritual philosophy she calls Earthseed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eButler’s vision of a society unravelled by inequality, environmental destruction and political extremism is both unsettling and remarkably prescient. Through Lauren’s extraordinary capacity to feel the pain of others, the novel explores vulnerability, adaptation, belief and the difficult work of building community. The first book in Butler’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEarthseed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e series, it is a landmark of Afrofuturist and speculative fiction, combining the urgency of a survival narrative with a profound meditation on change and human possibility.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A tree cannot grow in its parents’ shadows.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Octavia E. Butler, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A gripping tale of survival and a poignant account of growing up sane in a disintegrating world.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Gerald Jones, The New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64192957317450,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/parable-of-the-sower","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}