PARABLE OF THE TALENTS

Please Published the book in Hindi language , many people want to read this book but not available in Hindi .50 crore Indian talk to each other in Hindi. you can understand to value of Hindi language.

I recieved a decent copy. No damaged spine, no folded covers. Pages are ok.

I came to read these two Parable books because of social media posts about similarities between them and what is happening and has happened in America right now 🇺🇸. So prescient and frightening. This gave me goosebumps. The narrative is so compelling that it drew me in totally and I was having a hard time not imagining it happening in the not too distant future. I am not a fan of Marc, just saying. Octavia E. Butler should be given more literary recognition and not just be pigeonholed into a genre author. Modern literature at its best in my opinion.

Got this because my prof mentioned the author in class and I was curious. I was pleasantly surprised by the vividness of her storey telling. The characters came to life as I was reading and the book just drew me in. I found it to be a heavy read at some point, but it makes your mind turn.An excellent dystopian novel.*Keep in mind I'm just your average book worm, who likes to read. Not a Phd in Lit whose here to give a full-length thesis style critique.

A must read. For everyone. Periodt

I read it not only admiring her strong, original prose and tight plot, but with my mouth open that she had somehow had the insight to see where we were going. It’s all here, but written decades ago. Read, learn and reflect!

I didn't exactly expect a cheery celebration of the power of the human spirit and thinking differently and so on after reading the _Parable of the Sower_, but even so, I found the book a little too grim to take. If you read _Sower_, you know things were going comparatively well at the end of the book. As you might have guessed by now, Octavia Butler is not the kind of writer who is interested in a novel-length exploration of the growing pains of a new society. Very early, the stability that Acorn offered is lost, and a long, painful journey is under way.The book continues to explore Earthseed, the philosophy (or religion?) introduced in _Sower_. I think it's pretty much essential to read _Sower_ first or else you will not have the grounding in Earthseed to understand what happens throughout this novel. For me, Earthseed is a very striking philosophy with real-world utility. It makes me wish keenly that there were more Earthseed philosophy to read. And the philosophy and wanting to see how it played out in the lives of the characters is really what kept me going through this novel, even through parts that I found really difficult to handle emotionally.Other reviewers have remarked on how prescient the setting and events of the novel are - the order of events is all that so far separates it from the reality we have witnessed over the last half-decade, and as of this writing, despite the seeming defeat of the "Make America Great Again" folks, it seems all too likely that we will get closer to the vision of "Christian America" the book offers before we get past it. For that alone, it's worth a read. Butler was tapping into a zeitgeist hardly conceivable in 1998, and correctly identified many of the problems that would confront the world in the 2020s and 2030s at a time when, sadly, myopic policymakers and media figures couldn't stretch their minds to do the same.[CW: sexual violence]But for me, the book was very difficult to get through, due to the frequency of the instances of rape and brutal violence, particularly against women. It should not have been unexpected - I started reading Butler with _Kindred_, then _Sower_, and I know it is a theme of many of her other works as well. And I know that as a Black woman in America, Butler experienced continual threats to her body in ways that I as a white man have not. I would expect that writing a story of survival through such horrible situations was cathartic, and that for many women reading it is cathartic too in the way that many horror movies are. Nevertheless, it took a lot of effort for me to keep going through the middle section of the book.The book ends in an all-too-realistically bittersweet note - one theme that powerfully hits home for me is how genetic families have the power to hurt in ways that even one's chosen family cannot quite make up for. Some might find the ending a letdown, but I thought it was pretty much perfect.I will be thinking of this book and of Earthseed for a long time to come.