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FLEDGLING - OCTAVIA E BUTLER KARTONIERT (TB)

'The Octavia Butler novel for our times' THE ATLANTIC'My book of the year . . . completely
devours the genre which gave rise to it' JUNOT DÍAZThe final ground-breaking novel from
renowned  bestselling author Octavia E. Butler.A young girl wakes up in the woods  gravely
injured and alone  with no memory of what happened or who she is.As Shori heals  she realises
that she isn't like the people around her  which leads to a shocking discovery. She is a
fifty-three-year-old vampire  and in terrible danger.To save herself  Shori must learn anew
everything about the power and desires that she holds  the life that was stolen from her - and
those who want her dead.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'Octavia Butler was playing out
our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA
STEINEM'Butler's prose  always pared back to the bone  delineates the painful paradoxes of
metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN'One of the most significant literary artists
of the twentieth century' JUNOT DIAZ'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

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