‘Butler’s prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision’ GUARDIAN ‘Butler’s evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘Unnervingly prescient and wise’ YAA GYASI BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘No novel I’ve read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential’ CAROLINE O’DONOGHUE This is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time. Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them.Īnd each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before it’s even begun. She saves his life – and it will happen again and again. When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he’s drowning. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had’ JUNOT DIAZ ‘One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. ‘The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by’ GUARDIAN ‘A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail’ NEW YORK TIMES Butler’s ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo. **MAJOR TV SERIES COMING SOON TO DISNEY+**
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