An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa.Now optioned as a TV series for HBO, with executive producer George R.R. Martin!In a post-apocalyptic Africa, the world has changed in many ways; yet in one region genocide between tribes still bloodies the land. A woman who has survived the annihilation of her village and a terrible rape by an enemy general wanders into the desert, hoping to die. Instead, she gives birth to an angry baby girl with hair and skin the colour of sand. Gripped by the certainty that her daughter is different – special – she names her Onyesonwu, which means ‘Who fears death?’ in an ancient language.It doesn't take long for Onye to understand that she is physically and socially marked by the circumstances of her conception. She is Ewu – a child of rape who is expected to live a life of violence, a half-breed rejected by her community. But Onye is not the average Ewu. Even as a child, she manifests the beginnings of a remarkable and unique magic. As she grows, so do her abilities, and during an inadvertent visit to the spirit realm, she learns something terrifying: someone powerful is trying to kill her.Desperate to elude her would-be murderer and to understand her own nature, she embarks on a journey in which she grapples with nature, tradition, history, true love, and the spiritual mysteries of her culture, and ultimately learns why she was given the name she bears: Who Fears Death.
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Ннеди Окорафор. Who Fears Death
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Chapter 1. My Father’s Face
Chapter 2. Papa
Chapter 3. Interrupted Conversation
Chapter 4. Eleventh Year Rite
Chapter 5. The One Who is Calling
Chapter 6. Eshu
Chapter 7. Lessons Learned
Chapter 8. Lies
Chapter 9. Nightmare
Chapter 10. Ndiichie
Chapter 11. Luyu’s Determination
Chapter 12. A Vulture’s Arrogance
Chapter 13. Ani’s Sunshine
Chapter 14. The Storyteller
Chapter 15. The House of Osugbo
Chapter 16. Ewu
Chapter 17. Full Circle
Chapter 18. A Welcome Visit to Aro’s Hut
Chapter 19. The Man in Black
Chapter 20. Men
Chapter 21. Gadi
Chapter 22. Peace
Chapter 23. Bushcraft
Chapter 24. Onyesonwu in the Market
Chapter 25. And So It Was Decided
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60. Who Fears Death?
Epilogue
Chapter 61. Peacock
Chapter 62. Sola Speaks
Chapter 1. Rewritten
Acknowledgments:
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To my amazing father, Dr. Godwin Sunday Daniel Okoroafor, M.D., F.A.C.S. (1940-2004).
—Patrice Lumumba, first and only elected
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An hour later, as she sat weakly wondering if she would bleed to death, the blood slowed and then stopped. Holding the child, she slept. When she woke, she could stand. She felt as if her insides would fall out from between her legs but standing wasn’t impossible. She took a close look at her child. She had Najeeba’s thick lips and high cheekbones but she had the narrow straight nose of someone Najeeba didn’t know.
And her eyes, oh, her eyes. They were that gold brown, his eyes. It was as if he were peering at her through the child. The baby’s skin and hair color were the odd shade of the sand. Najeeba knew of this phenomenon, particular only to children conceived through violence. Was it even spoken of in the Great Book? She wasn’t sure. She hadn’t read much of it.
