Kindred

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Paperback

På English

Publicerades 1 januari 1981 av Pocket.

ISBN:
978-0-671-83483-8
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OCLC-nummer:
7704372

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Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

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recenserade Kindred av Octavia E. Butler

Intense read

This book was an intense read, genuinely making me feel stressed sometimes. I'm mostly left speechless. I don't even know how to describe the wide array of feelings this book made me go through. A must read, in my opinion.

recenserade Kindred av Octavia E. Butler (Black women writers series)

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4.5/5, really. Kindred is an astonishing novel with a lot to unpack. The only thing that bothers me about it is in the setup - the "Oh well, I guess I'm time travelling against my will, shit happens" aspect of it, where nobody ever asks why and how this is going on. I don't need reasons, but I need the characters to want them.

Once that's past, though, the past is present in all its messiness.

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  • Fiction - General
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