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**The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by Guardian** n n Octavia E. Butlers masterpiece and ground-breaking exploration of power and responsibility, for fans of The Handmaids Tale, The Power and Yaa Gyasis Homegoing. With an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo. n n [Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human New York Times n n No novel Ive read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential The Pool n n In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave. n n When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, hes drowning. She saves his life - and it will happen again and again. n n Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them. n n And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before its even begun. n n Octavia E. Butlers ground-breaking masterpiece is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time. n n What readers are saying about KINDRED: n n It was written in 1979 but could have been written last year. Incredible. I couldnt put it down n n The narrator is us - we see the abomination and humiliation of slavery not through a slaves eyes, but our modern-day eyes, and it makes it all the more powerful n n A must-read for everyone n n Emotionally and viscerally alive and challenging. I dont know how I missed it before now n
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