kindred

<p>Kindred</p>

<p>Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò.</p>

<p>'A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail' NEW YORK TIMES</p>

<p>'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' GUARDIAN</p>

<p>'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ</p>

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<p>In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave.</p>

<p>When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning. She saves his life - and it will happen again and again.</p>

<p>Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them.</p>

<p>And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before it's even begun.</p>

<p>This is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time.</p>

<p>'No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE</p>

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<p>PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR</p>

<p>'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI</p>

<p>'Butler's evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES</p>

<p>'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN</p>

<p>'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS</p>

<p>'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR</p>

<p>'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</p>