Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“We must curb our fury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.”
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother—a princess in exile from a far away land—are the only persons in their household assigned names. As the boy’s regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians’ fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments—and his own chilling role in them.
Set against the disquiet of Revolutionary Boston, M.T. Anderson’s extraordinary novel takes place at a time when American patriots rioted and battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.
*Challenged for mature themes surrounding human trafficking, brutal treatment of enslaved African Americans during the American Revolution, and historical racism.
Read Alikes for Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol.I, The Pox Party: Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol.II, The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson; The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead; Kindred by Octavia Butler
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“We must curb our fury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.”
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother—a princess in exile from a far away land—are the only persons in their household assigned names. As the boy’s regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians’ fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments—and his own chilling role in them.
Set against the disquiet of Revolutionary Boston, M.T. Anderson’s extraordinary novel takes place at a time when American patriots rioted and battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.
*Challenged for mature themes surrounding human trafficking, brutal treatment of enslaved African Americans during the American Revolution, and historical racism.
Read Alikes for Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol.I, The Pox Party: Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol.II, The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson; The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead; Kindred by Octavia Butler
ISBN 978-0-7636-3679-1
M.T. Anderson
2006
Winner of 2006 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
