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Octavia E. Butler

first published 1979 Beacon Press, 1988 264 pages

Black women writers series

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 dangerou...

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Kindred edition · 2023 · Headline Publishing Group · 9781035409686
Kindred, Gift Edition hardcover · 2022 · Beacon Press · 272 pages · 9780807006924
Legami di sangue edition · 2020 · Sur · 357 pages · 9788869982156
Kindred edition · 2019 · Morro Branco · 432 pages · 9788592795870
Yakın paperback · 2019 · İthaki Yayınları · 384 pages · 9786053759263
Kindred paperback · 2018 · Headline Publishing Group · 304 pages · 9781472258229
Verbunden paperback · 2016 · w_orten & meer · 9783945644058
Kindred audiobook · 2015 · Recorded Books on Brilliance Audio · 9781501260100
Kindred edition · 2014 · Headline Publishing Group · 304 pages · 9781472214812
Kindred edition · 2014 · Headline Publishing Group · 9781472214829
Kindred edition · 2014 · Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. · 9781411476073
Kindred edition · 2009 · Marco Book Company · 9780784806944

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