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Author Okorafor, Nnedi, author.

Title Who fears death / Nnedi Okorafor.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Daw Books, Inc., [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  SF OKORAFOR, N.    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Sci-fi/Fantasy  F OKORAFOR    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC OKO    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FANTASY OKORAFOR    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F OKORAFOR    DUE 05-11-24
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  PB SCI FIC OKORAFOR    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  SF OKORAFOR, NNEDI    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  OKORAFOR, NNEDI    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F OKORAFOR    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Young Adult Fiction  YA-OKO    DUE 04-05-21 Billed

Description 386 pages ; 24 cm
Series DAW book collectors ; no. 1512
Who Fears Death ; Book 1
DAW book collectors ; no. 1512.
Summary 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.
Contents Part I. Becoming -- Part II. Student -- Part III. Warrior -- Epilogue.
Subject Magic -- Fiction.
Genocide -- Fiction.
Rape victims -- Fiction.
Dystopias -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Shamans -- Fiction.
Fate and fatalism -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Africa -- Fiction.
Africa -- Fiction.
Magic -- Fiction.
Genocide -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Magical Realism.
Single mothers. (OCoLC)fst01119370
Shamans. (OCoLC)fst01115174
Rape victims. (OCoLC)fst01090022
Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
Fate and fatalism. (OCoLC)fst00921813
Dystopias. (OCoLC)fst00900372
Death. (OCoLC)fst00888613
Genocide. (OCoLC)fst00940208
Magic. (OCoLC)fst01005468
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Genre/Form Fantasy fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726607
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Fantasy fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Fiction.
ISBN 9780756406172 (hardcover)
075640617X (hardcover)
9780756406691 (paperback)
0756406692 (paperback)
9780756407285 (paperback)
0756407281 (paperback)
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