Who Fears Death

, #1

Hardcover, 386 pages

English language

Published June 1, 2010 by DAW Hardcover.

ISBN:
978-0-7564-0617-2
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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 – …

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Au sud du Sahara, après l'apocalypse

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Un style écrit brut et direct, d’où les émotions fusent, abordant des sujets extrêmement durs. Des figures féminines qui conservent leur capacité d’agir envers et contre tous, en dépit des violences et du poids d’une société patriarcale étouffante. Un univers mythologique dense, investissant et explorant les imaginaires du sud du Sahara. Une lecture éprouvante, qui m'a happé et dont le souvenir va m'accompagner durablement.

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Subjects

  • Magic--Fiction.
  • Genocide--Fiction.
  • Africa--Fiction.