Who Fears Death

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. New Download Who Fears Death By Nnedi Okorafor For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I d heard good things about this book But between its poor structure, its infuriating outdated tropes, its overpowered heroine and its all too easy magical solutions to real life problems, I m left wondering why so many people like it Who Fears Death is a post apocalyptic fantasy novel, set in a future Sudan with many of the problems that plague the region today genocide, weaponized rape, female genital mutilation, etc The narrator, Onyesonwu, is a child of rape, who faces discrimination I d heard good things about this book But between its poor structure, its infuriating outdated tropes, its overpowered heroine and its all too easy magical solutions to real life problems, I m left wondering why so many people like it Who Fears Death is a post apocalyptic fantasy novel, set in a future Sudan with many of the problems that plague the region today genocide, weaponized rape, female genital mutilation, etc The narrator, Onyesonwu, is a child of rape, who faces discrimination based on her gender and her mixed race status while growing up, but goes on in the second half of the novel to undertake a quest to stop the genocide again...Rating 4 of five The Publisher Says 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 Rating 4 of five The Publisher Says 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 nam...I read my first Octavia Butler novel, Dawn, late in 2014, and late in my life Reading it I was like oh no black women authored speculative fiction, where have you been all my life right there on the shelf being read by millions of folk in the know while I wasted my time, obviously This is my favourite kind of thing to read, hands down, it hits my reading spot mmmm This isn t a book of sublimely polished prose where the writer has clearly agonised over every adverb, but the ease and I read my first Octavia Butler novel, Dawn, late in 2014, and late in my life Reading it I was like oh no black women authored speculative fiction, where have you been all my life right there on the shelf being read by millions of folk in the know while I wasted my time, obviously This is my f...I ve kept an eye on Nnedi Okorafor s career for a while now Her books always intrigued me I have a hard time resisting anything post apocalyptic, and hers are set in Africa, a great antidote to the typical lily white American version but the fact that they were always targeted at young adults kept me away I like books to have some subtlety about them, paragraphs that don t have the same words in each sentence, lines of dialogue that don t end with she said ___ly To be fair these are I ve kept an eye on Nnedi Okorafor s career for a while now Her books always intrigued me I have a hard time resisting anything post apocalyptic, and hers are set in Africa, a great antidote to the typical lily white American version but the fact that they were always targeted at young adults kept me away I like books to have some subtlety about them, paragraphs that don t have the same words in each sentence, lines of dialogue that don t end with she said ___ly To be fair these are certainly also faults of the pulpy SF of earlier decades, but I have a higher standard for newer work, I guess So when hype about Who Fears Death, her first adult novel...A number of reviewers have talked about how they struggled with how dark the book was how difficult it was to read accounts of rape and genital mutilation and racial genocide There would, I think, be something wrong with me if I didn t find reading about that sort of thing viscerally unpleasant, but all were integral parts of the book s world building, and while they may have made reading some sections an uncomfortable experience, they didn t detract from my appreciation of the work as a A number of reviewers have talked about how they struggled with how dark the book was how difficult it was to read accounts of rape and genital mutilation and racial genocide There would, I think, be something wrong with me if I didn t find reading about that sort of thing viscerally unpleasant, but all were integral parts of the book s world building, and while they may have made reading some sections an uncomfortable experience, they didn t detract from my appreciation ...Onyesonwu is the outcast child of a mother who cannot speak above a whisper Her skin and hair clearly mark her as Ewu, a child of both Nuru and Okeke, a combination despised by Nuru and Okeke alike Her gender makes the only sorcerer in the village unwilling to teach her And her shapeshifting and nigh uncontrollable magic make her neighbors fear and hate her After her father dies and her magical powers manifest themselves at his funeral, she flees into the desert to avoid mob violence and to Onyesonwu is the outcast child of a mother who cannot speak above a whisper Her skin and hair clearly mark her as Ewu, a child of both N...Thisreview actually sums up my feelings pretty well 2.5 stars, rounded up for what this book attempted to do, but it doesn t deliver on its promising setup start It s an ambitious novel, tackling the subjects that were stewing in Okorafor s mind weaponised rape, genocide, racism sexism, female genital mutilation, problematic cultures But it s strung together into a really flimsy plot with a boringly straightforward quest structure, with exposition dumps, few surprises along Thisreview actually sums up my feelings pretty well 2.5 stars, rounded up for what this book attempted to do, but it doesn t deliver on its promising setup start It s an ambitious novel, tackling the subjects that were stewing in Okorafor s mind weaponised rape, genocide, racism sexism, female genital mutilation, problematic cultures But it s strung together into a really flimsy plot with a boringly s...0 Flawed, imperfect creatures sTo be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal And if you refused, they hated you and often the normal hated you even when you did serve themFirst buddy read with Marie LuftikusI was so looking forward to reading Who Fears Death but sadly, all I m left with is the disappointment If it wasn t for this being a buddy read, I would have DNF at 12% In the long run, we both agreed to call it quits at 50% Thank freaking goodness 0 Flawed, imperfect creatures sTo be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal And if you refused, they hated you and often the normal hated you even when you did serve themFirst buddy read with Marie LuftikusI was so looking forward to reading Who Fears Death but sadly, all I m left with is the disappointment If it wasn t for this being a buddy read, I would have DNF at 12% In the long run, we both agreed to call it quits at 50% Thank freaking goodness too, because it physically hurt just thinking about readin...In a post apocalyptic Sudan, Onyesonwu Igbo for who fears death lives, being the offspring of the rape a Nuru man imposed upon a woman of the oppressed Okeke After she has grown, she goes on a search to destroy her father, a sorcerer, using her own magic.I read somewhere that this book was partially inspired by Emily Wax s 2004 Washington Post article We Want to Make a Light Baby, which spoke of weoponized rape the Arab military men used against Black women during the Dafur conflict And In a post apocalyptic Sudan, Onyesonwu Igbo for who fears death lives, being the off...I tried I know there are great reviews of this out there and Nnedi Okorafor has won a Hugo and a Nebula and a slew of other awards So it s a case of this just isn t my thing rather than it s a bad book.I made it over half way when I decided I might have just waded too far in this desert landscape To start with the positives I liked the setting of this book, some sort of post apocalyptic Sudan complete with genocides and FGM, thus even though this is a fantasy novel, it is dealing with many I tried I know there are great reviews of this out there and Nnedi Okorafor has won a Hugo and a Nebula and a s...

• English
• 26 June 2019
Nnedi Okorafor
• Hardcover
• 386 pages
• 075640617X
• Nnedi Okorafor
• Who Fears Death