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100 1 _aButler, Octavia E.,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aWild seed /
_cOctavia E. Butler.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bHeadline,
_c2020.
264 4 _c©1980.
300 _a307 pages ;
_c20 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aA Patternist novel ;
_v1
500 _aOriginally published: New York : Doubleday, 1980.
520 _aA Patternist Novel: a story of love and hate, in which two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together - and changing the destiny of the human race. Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one - until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing ageing. She uses her powers to cure her neighbours and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu - until she meets Doro. The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her; and from the villages of 17th-century Nigeria to 19th-century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generations, irrevocably changing what it means to be human.
650 0 _aAfrican American women
_vFiction
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650 0 _aWomen healers
_vFiction
_927350
650 0 _aImmortality
_vFiction
_927351
650 0 _aSex role
_vFiction.
_93051
650 0 _aGender identity
_vFiction.
_923791
800 1 _aButler, Octavia E.
_tPatternist series ;
_v1.
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