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One 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...
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Dawn, Octavia E. Butler
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- Released
- 2022
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- Title
- Dawn
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Octavia E. Butler
- Publisher
- Headline publishing group
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1472281063
- ISBN13
- 9781472281067
- Series
- Xenogenesis
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Family, Science Fantasy, Gifts for men, Leadership, Violence, Mourning, Post-apocalyptic, Aliens, Community, Spaceships, Isolation, Distrust
- First published
- 1987
- Original title
- Dawn
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- One 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...