Kindred: the ground-breaking masterpiece

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Sinopse

'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' GUARDIAN'[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' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE--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.--PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' LUPITA NYONG'O

Participantes

Autor: Octavia E. Butler

Autor

AYOBAMI ADEBAYO

Ayòbámi Adébáyò (Lagos — Nigéria, 1988) é mestre em escrita criativa pela Universidade de East Anglia, na Inglaterra. Em sua estreia literária, Fique comigo (2018), tece reflexões sobre o patriarcalismo na sociedade nigeriana e desvela o dilema causado por conta da impossibilidade de um casal ter filhos, e a pressão familiar em introduzir mais uma esposa na relação. O romance — publicado em quinze países — recebeu uma série de prêmios e menções e foi classificado como um dos melhores do ano de 2017 nas listas do New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal e muitos outros. Desde 2009, Adébáyò é editora da revista literária nigeriana Saraba.