Parable of the sower

299 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 1993 by Four Walls Eight Windows.

ISBN:
978-0-941423-99-1
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OCLC Number:
28255529

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Set thirty years in the future, a young woman suffering from hyperempathy, to feel others' pain as well as her own, makes a dangerous journey north from Southern California.

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Me ha enganchado, pero...

El libro me ha enganchado, está muy bien escrito y plantea un futuro distópico interesante, producido por el cambio climático. Es sorprendente que se publicase a principios de los 90, porque es muy clarividente. Mi pero es porque la autora quiere que comulguemos con la parte espiritual, con la religion new age que plantea en el libro. He de reconocer que eso me ha sacado bastante de la lectura. Lo que sí que tengo claro es que leeré el siguiente y que seguro que lamento que la autora no pudiese escribir el final de la trilogía.

Review of 'Parable of the Sower' on 'Goodreads'

On a second read, I feel a lot differently than I did the first time around. I can't separate uncomfortable feelings of reading about a teenager basically starting a cult and attracting people who are at their absolute most vulnerable to join. It doesn't sit well with me to read about Lauren's glee to "raise babies in Earthseed." And the intense, intense, dehumanization and otherizing of people using drugs, making them into physically unrecognizable monsters, is something I can't get past. If Lauren has hyper-empathy, and is more sensitive to people in need of help, then why does the buck stop with people using drugs?

Subjects

  • African Americans -- Fiction
  • Twenty-first century -- Fiction
  • California, Southern -- Fiction