Octavia E. Butler: Kindred
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- Materiaali: Muu
- Kustantaja: Recorded Books on Brilliance Audio
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781501260100
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The first science fiction written by a black woman, 'Kindred' has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning white boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes the challenge she s been given: to protect this young slaveholder until he can father her own great-grandmother. '