# Parable of the Talents

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- Book: [Parable of the Talents](https://www.bookquiver.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-talents) ([Parable of the Talents.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-talents.md))
- Authors: [Octavia E. Butler](https://www.bookquiver.com/octavia-e-butler)
- Publisher: seven_stories_press
- ISBN: 978-16-0980-720-7
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2017-02-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly...