Kindred Synopsis
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.
This is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781472258229 |
| Publication date: |
3rd May 2018 |
| Author: |
Octavia E. Butler |
| Publisher: |
Headline Book Publishing an imprint of Headline Publishing Group |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
320 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Octavia E. Butler Press Reviews
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
One cannot finish Kindred without feeling changed. It is a shattering work of art - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
[A] must-read novel - BBC
Everyone should read at least one novel by the grand dame of science fiction, and Kindred is a perfect (and harrowing and disturbing and brilliant) place to start - Refinery 29
The immediate effect of reading Octavia Butler's Kindred is to make every other time travel book in the world look as if it's wimping out... This is a brilliant book, utterly absorbing, very well written, and deeply distressing. It's very hard to read, not because it's not good but because it's so good - Tor
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
Impossible to turn away from once you've devoured the first few pages - Starburst
If you haven't read Butler, you don't yet understand how rich the possibilities of science fiction can be - Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Butler's books are exceptional - Village Voice
Few writers in our field are so good at blending page-turners with philosophical questions so seamlessly -- Cory Doctorow -
