London:
Headline Publishing Group
,
2019
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311 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Butler, Octavia E. info |
| Ausgabe: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Jahr: | 2019 |
| Maße: | 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 1472263669 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Set in the 2020s where society has largely collapsed due to climate change, growing wealth inequality, and corporate greed, Parable of the Sower centers on a young woman named Lauren Oya Olamina who possesses what Butler dubbed hyperempathy or "sharing" – the ability to feel pain and other sensations she witnesses. As a teenager growing up in the remnants of a gated community near Los Angeles, she begins to develop a new belief system, which she comes to call Earthseed. When the community's security is compromised, her home is destroyed and her family is murdered, and she travels north with other survivors. Society outside the community walls has reverted to chaos due to resource scarcity and poverty, and mixed race relationships are stigmatized amid attacks against religious and ethnic minorities. Lauren believes that humankind's destiny is to travel beyond Earth and live on other planets, forcing humankind into its adulthood, and that Earthseed is preparation for this destiny. She gathers followers along her journey north and founds the first Earthseed community, Acorn, in Northern California. | |
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| Sequel: Parable of the talents. -- "Aspect." | |
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