Dawn // (Lilith’s Brood #1)

One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author ofParable of the Sower.

When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali – a seemingly benevolent alien race — intervened in the fate of the humanity hundreds of years ago, saving everyone who survived a nuclear war from a dying, ruined Earth and then putting them into a deep sleep. After learning all they could about Earth and its beings, the Oankali healed the planet, cured cancer, increased human strength, and they now want Lilith to lead her people back to Earth — but salvation comes at a price.

Hopeful and thought-provoking, this post-apocalyptic narrative deftly explores gender and race through the eyes of characters struggling to adapt during a pivotal time of crisis and change.

• Publisher:Grand Central Publishing (April 27, 2021)
• Language:English
• Paperback:320 pages
• ISBN-10: 1538753715
• ISBN-13: 9781538753712
• Item Weight:8.6 ounces
• Dimensions: 5.55 x 1.1 x 8 inches

Author: Butler, Octavia E.

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 20 January 2022 by Headline Publishing Group (Headline Book Publishing) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Lilith’s Brood’ series.

Paperback / softback | 320 pages
130 x 198 x 25 | 224g

‘One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century’ JUNOT DIAZ’Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same’ GLORIA STEINEMOne woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel by the bestselling, award-winning author. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Ursula K. Le Guin.

When Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors or windows, she remembers a devastating war, and a husband and child long lost to her.

She finds herself living among the Oankali, a strange race who intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of years before. They spared those they could from the ruined Earth, and suspended them in a long, deep sleep. Over centuries, the Oankali learned from the past, cured disease and healed the world. Now they want Lilith to lead her people back home. But salvation comes at a price – to restore humanity, it must be changed forever…

PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR’In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time… for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler’s novel may be unmatched’ NEW YORKER’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’Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately,what it means to be human’ NEW YORK TIMES’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