Kindred - BookWyrm - Personal Sized

432 pages

Portuguese language

Published March 23, 2019 by Morro Branco.

ISBN:: 978-85-92795-87-0

(1 review)

Em seu vigésimo sexto aniversário, Dana e seu marido estão de mudança para um novo apartamento. Em meio a pilhas de livros e caixas abertas, ela começa a se sentir tonta e cai de joelhos, nauseada. Então, o mundo se despedaça.

Dana repentinamente se encontra à beira de uma floresta, próxima a um rio. Uma criança está se afogando e ela corre para salvá-la. Mas, assim que arrasta o menino para fora da água, vê-se diante do cano de uma antiga espingarda. Em um piscar de olhos, ela está de volta a seu novo apartamento, completamente encharcada. É a experiência mais aterrorizante de sua vida... até acontecer de novo. E de novo.

Quanto mais tempo passa no século XIX, numa Maryland pré-Guerra Civil – um lugar perigoso para uma mulher negra –, mais consciente Dana fica de que sua vida pode acabar antes mesmo de ter começado.

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AlexaReadMeABook reviewed Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Timeless

5 stars

Incredibly written for a book. It is amazing to think it was written in the 1970s. The story is just captivating, characters so realistic, and the time travel elements very well done. I learned about slavery growing up but never in this way and in so much detail. Dana describes it well when she witnessed the past vs watching it in media, or reading about it in a history textbook. While the story is fictionalized the events described are very real and you find how insidious slavery was and how it not only became normalized in the 1800s. It did not shy away from black bodies being a human currency and the words and treatment alike slaves and "freed slaves" were subjected to. No one is safe. It is a systemic issue that still exists today and while we have made great strides, the effects have still rippled through time. …

Incredibly written for a book. It is amazing to think it was written in the 1970s. The story is just captivating, characters so realistic, and the time travel elements very well done. I learned about slavery growing up but never in this way and in so much detail. Dana describes it well when she witnessed the past vs watching it in media, or reading about it in a history textbook. While the story is fictionalized the events described are very real and you find how insidious slavery was and how it not only became normalized in the 1800s. It did not shy away from black bodies being a human currency and the words and treatment alike slaves and "freed slaves" were subjected to. No one is safe. It is a systemic issue that still exists today and while we have made great strides, the effects have still rippled through time. Very powerful book and well worth the read. Looking forward to later reading more of Octavia Butler's books! Just amazing writing.