Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

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2024. Le nouveau président des États-Unis provoque une crise sans précédent. Dérèglement social et climatique, épidémies, pauvreté, violences. Dans ce décor post-apocalyptique, la barbarie règne, les murs s'élèvent. La fille d'un pasteur noir atteinte d'hyper-empathie entame la rédaction d'une Bible d'espoir et d'humanité, Le Livre des Vivants.

UNE ANTICIPATION VISIONNAIRE

« Une grande dame de la SF, auteure américaine majeure ayant écrit sur la question noire et dont l'ouvre foisonnante déconstruit les mythes de la technologie, de la conquête et du pouvoir. »

Léa Mormin-Chauvac - Libération

La parabole du semeur

Octavia Butler tackles the creation of a new religion, the making of a god, and the ultimate fate of humanity in her Earthseed series, which began with Parable of the Sower, and now continues with Parable of the Talents. The saga began with the near-future dystopian tale of Sower, in which young Lauren Olamina began to realize her destiny as a leader of people dispossessed and destroyed by the crumbling of society. The basic principles of Lauren's faith, Earthseed, were contained in a collection of deceptively simple proverbs that Lauren used to recruit followers. She teaches that "God is change" and that humanity's ultimate destiny is among the stars.In Parable of the Talents, the seeds of change that Lauren planted begin to bear fruit, but in unpredictable and brutal ways. Her small community is destroyed, her child is kidnapped, and she is imprisoned by sadistic zealots. She must find a way to escape and begin again, without family or friends. Her single-mindedness in teaching Earthseed may be her only chance to survive, but paradoxically, may cause the ultimate estrangement of her beloved daughter. Parable of the Talents is told from both mother's and daughter's perspectives, but it is the narrative of Lauren's grown daughter, who has seen her mother made into a deity of sorts, that is the most compelling. Butler's writing is simple and elegant, and her storytelling skills are superb, as usual. Fans will be eagerly awaiting the next installment in what promises to be a moving and adventurous saga. —Therese Littleton

La Parabole des Talents (Earthseed, #2)

'A book that shifted my life... Epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant' VIOLA DAVIS on Wild Seed
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A PATTERNIST NOVEL: BOOK TWO
The baby's name is Mary, and her father is immortal.
For thousands of years, Doro has pursued perfection, experimenting with humanity and seeking out rare - and powerful - talents. His finest creation is Mary, a young black woman who grows up on the rough outskirts of Los Angeles.
Doro knows he must handle Mary carefully or risk her ending like his previous experiments - dead, either by her own hand or his.
What he doesn't suspect is that Mary is beginning to learn just how much power she wields. As she comes of age, Mary must harness her newfound abilities to challenge the ruthless man who controls her - and fight to free her people once and for all.

Mind of My Mind

La parabole du semeur ; La parabole des talents - 2 volumes

Ma dernière nuit d'enfant commença par une visite. Les soeurs de T'Gatoi nous avaient attribué deux oeufs stériles. Le premier, T'Gatoi le donna à ma mère, mon frère et mes soeurs ; l'autre, elle tenait à ce que je le mange en entier. Peu importait. Il y en avait assez pour que tout le monde se sente bien à la ?n. Presque tout le monde. Ma mère ne voulait pas y toucher. Elle restait assise là, à nous regarder planer et rêver sans elle. La plupart du temps, elle me regardait, moi. Couché contre le long ventre velouté de T'Gatoi, je sirotais mon oeuf en me demandant pourquoi ma mère se refusait un plaisir aussi inoffensif. Elle aurait eu moins de cheveux gris si elle se l'était accordé de temps en temps. Les oeufs prolongeaient la vie et la force. Mon père, qui n'avait jamais dit non à aucun, était parvenu à un âge au moins deux fois plus avancé que la normale. Et, sur le tard, quand il aurait dû se trouver ralenti, il avait épousé ma mère et lui avait fait quatre enfants...

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Enfants de sang

Bifrost n° 108

Depuis quatre mille années, Doro le Nubien, produit de mutations multiples et étranges, s'efforce de fonder sur Terre une nouvelle race d'hommes. A cette fin, il fait croiser les êtres des divers continents. Il crée des familles, il est père, souvent incestueux, d'une quantité d'êtres qui tous participent de lui. Mary, sa propre fille, dont il est aussi l'amant, est douée d'une puissance étonnante, celle de créer un filet, un MOTIF, télépathique qui rérénère et guérit les victimes abandonnées du système d'élevage de Doro. Cette puissance entrera bientôt en conflit avec les instincts et les appétits de Doro d'où naîtra un Combat à mort.

Le Motif (Patternist , #2)

Pochi scrittori hanno saputo aprire nuove riflessioni sulla contemporaneità partendo da premesse vertiginosamente fantastiche come quelle che troviamo nella narrativa di Octavia Butler. Perennemente sospese tra utopia e distopia, le sue storie ci obbligano a salti del pensiero in apparenza paradossali, ma ci riportano ogni volta alle radici concrete e umanissime del nostro stare nel mondo. Cosa accadrebbe in una società in cui la parola fosse scomparsa per sempre, e con essa la capacità di mediare i conflitti tramite il dialogo, lasciandoci come unica risorsa disponibile l'uso della violenza? Si può immaginare un mondo in cui siano gli uomini e non le donne a dover sopportare il fardello della gravidanza? Cosa chiederemmo a Dio, se avessimo la possibilità di incontrarlo (o di incontrarla) e di esprimere uno e un solo desiderio per salvare il genere umano dall'autodistruzione?Segnalato dal New York Times tra i migliori libri dell'anno e tradotto oggi per la prima volta in italiano, La sera, il giorno e la notte è una lettura imprescindibile per gli appassionati di speculative fiction, uno sguardo ravvicinato su una delle menti creative più coraggiose e visionarie della letteratura statunitense.

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