Who Fears Death
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (669 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003Y58Q3Q |
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| Number of Pages | : | 504 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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JenP said Not your average fantasy novel. Who Fears Death is a speculative fiction novel with fantasy elements that deals with issues of race, ethnicity, and gender. It is set in a fictionalized version of a post-apocalyptic Sudan and centers around a young woman, Onyesonwu (Ibgo for “who fears death).Onyesonwu is referred to as an. "Hero's Journey" according to Amazon Customer. Classic hero's journey set in a future Africa with a wonderful, mystical and brutally violent story. Reading the author's Origin Story before I read the book helped me to understand where she was emotionally when she wrote it. That combined with the recent abduction of 200+ Nigerian school girls . Anna Preston said Dark, gritty, magical, and all too real. I was surprised by how great this story is. It has elements of fantasy, but is based in the all-too-real facts of the violence and genocide happening in parts of Africa. Fair warning: some of it will turn your stomach. Precisely because it is so real. (I cried a lot.)I'm no expert, but I also got
The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. 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. 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. In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocid