La parábola del sembrador

Paperback, 352 pages

Español language

Published March 8, 2021 by Capitán Swing.

ISBN:
978-84-122817-8-1
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4 stars (183 reviews)

Cuando el cambio climático global y las crisis económicas conducen al caos social a principios de la década de 2020, California se llena de peligros, desde la escasez generalizada de agua hasta las masas de vagabundos que harán cualquier cosa para sobrevivir otro día más. Lauren Olamina, una joven adolescente de quince años, vive dentro de una comunidad cerrada con su padre, un predicador, su familia y sus vecinos, relativamente protegida de la anarquía circundante. En una sociedad donde cualquier vulnerabilidad es un riesgo, ella sufre de hiperempatía, una sensibilidad debilitante hacia las emociones de los demás. Precoz y lúcida, Lauren debe hacer oír su voz para proteger a sus seres queridos de los desastres inminentes que su pequeña comunidad ignora obstinadamente. Pero lo que comienza como una lucha por la supervivencia pronto conduce al nacimiento de una nueva fe y a una sorprendente visión del destino humano.

15 editions

Can't believe this was written in 1993

4 stars

Great vision of where we could easily find ourselves in the year 2024. Though things haven't (yet) turned out as bad as envisioned in the book, it definitely hits close to home. Was nice to read a pre-post apocalyptic (what to you call it when the apocalypse is ongoing?? Just apocalyptic?) novel that didn't have zombies everywhere. I enjoyed the elements of religion and thinking about how one would start a new religion that wasn't as laden with hundreds of years of doctrine and dogma as what we have now.

finally a post-apocalyptic story that says something meaningful

5 stars

The best "post-apocalyptic" story I've ever come across. So good, it puts most of the others to shame. Also just a great story on its about community, religion, and how to believe in and work for a better world. I wish it was recommended reading in school.

am I not getting this?

No rating

maybe I was expecting too much because I'd heard about it in adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown's podcast and thought this was going to be extremely mind-blowing. I kept expecting the story to go somewhere, to develop in some direction but it just kept being a bleak, lost earth and people trying to just survive on it. seemed to me like the plot just fizzled out.

No rating

Cuando estaba más joven la ficción y la ciencia ficción eran espacios que me hacían sentido para conectar con la imaginación y con la posibilidad de pensar y sentir la vida fuera de límites que percibía en mis presentes.

Como estos ámbitos de la literatura no resonaban tanto en algunas de mis redes cercanas, me alejé un poquito de éstos por algunos años y me metí a libros más teóricos y "serios". Pero desde que empecé a leer a Octavia Butler, por recomendación de una amiga, volví a interesarme en textos de (ciencia) ficción.

Octavia reflexionó sobre la ausencia/invisibilización de mujeres negras en un contexto donde predominaba una ciencia ficción de escritores hombres y blancos. También propuso escenarios que abordaran los pasados-presentes-futuros y que estimularan la imaginación y la creatividad como posibilidades ante las crisis que seguimos viviendo.

En Parable of the sower, Octavia tejió temas como: sensibilidad hacia otrxs …

The government is useless and we're all gonna get raped and our houses burned down

4 stars

Both right-wing and left-wing preppers will find something for them in this book. Written from the POV of a teenager in a life-or-death situation, the book is pretty much on survival mode the entire time, with the accompanying lack of nuance and fear permeating throughout. Still, seems like an important and balanced read.

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

3 stars

This is book is a modern rendition of Earth Abides (by George R Stewart). It is superior in many ways. It is so much more well-written, more believable and a lot more emotionally attached.

But this was not a book for me.

Its diary format lends itself to a single-subject, single-threaded narrative that is too far from my preferred storytelling which is parallell storylines reminiscent of that in modern tv series. The diary format also leans into slower, observational progress which is probably intentional, to make it feel more genuine and grounded. But for me that just takes away excitement - everything is just a string of situations, there's no feeling of story arc.

For some this is probably an indication of quality, but I want my fiction to be fiction.

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

No rating

I did not feel invested in any of the characters, but I did find them, their stories, and the setting very interesting. In that way I feel conflicted about this book. Another thing is that I was always expecting things to get worse in the next chapter, as the protagonist realizes early on, so I was anxious about continuing before I would read each time. But because I didn't feel invested in the characters, as shocking as the events were I wasn't too bothered by them.

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

4 stars

This is kind of a begrudging 4* review because while I cannot deny the quality of Butler's art and craft in this novel, it just really truly wasn't for me.

Strong points of this work: the writing, the vision of the future feels very real, hyper-empathy syndrome was an interesting idea because how it plays out in the novel is completely contrary to my expectations.

Weak points of this work: I didn't feel like it offered much besides "Yup, everything is well and truly fucked." There weren't enough points of relief from the general violence and despair of the setting. I think the Earthseed portions of this work were intended to provide that, but I didn't find the religion in the book to be particularly captivating and as a fan of Carl Sagan, I feel like the religion should have appealed to me. It just didn't tho.

The lead is …

Review of 'Parable of the Sower' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

A dystopia that predicted many elements of the present day, including the slogan "Make America Great Again" and dealing with many issues facing us now, such as climate change and disease and the breakdown of civil society. 

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