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WHO FEARS DEATH
de Okorafor, Nnedi
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Base of spine slightly bruised, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. (27589)
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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New York: DAW Books, Inc., [2010]. First edition. Base of spine slightly bruised, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. (27589). Octavo, boards. The author's first adult novel and winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel 2011. Also winner of the Carl Brandon Kindred Award "for outstanding work of speculative fiction dealing with race and ethnicity." Set in a post-apocalyptic future in the Sudan. "To compare author Nnedi Okorafor to the late Octavia E. Butler would be easy to do, but this simple comparison should not detract from Okorafor's unique storytelling gift. Who Fears Death is a post-apocalyptic parable that teaches lessons on how ignorance, apathy, and prejudice can kill, but how truth and knowledge are the keys to life." - Zetta Brown, The New York Journal of Books (online).
Sinopsis
Read Nnedi Okorafor's posts on the Penguin Blog. An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of post- apocalyptic Africa. In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert. She gives birth to a baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand and instinctively knows that her daughter is different. She names her daughter Onyesonwu, which means "Who Fears Death?" in an ancient African tongue. Reared under the tutelage of a mysterious and traditional shaman, Onyesonwu discovers her magical destiny-to end the genocide of her people. The journey to fulfill her destiny will force her to grapple with nature, tradition, history, true love, the spiritual mysteries of her culture-and eventually death itself.
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- Librería
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 27589
- Título
- WHO FEARS DEATH
- Autor
- Okorafor, Nnedi
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Base of spine slightly bruised, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. (27589)
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- DAW Books, Inc.
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- [2010]
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Fantasy . SF
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
Sobre John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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