Nnedi Okorafor - Who Fears Death (epub)[j_ray]

International award-winning Nnedi Okorafor enters the world of magical realist
literature with a powerful story of genocide in the far future and the woman who
reshapes her world.

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 color 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 violent conception.

She is Ewu - a child of rape who is expected to live a life of violence, a half-breed
rejected by both tribes. 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 teaches her why she was given the
name she bears: Who Fears Death.

Title: Who Fears Death
Author: Nnedi Okorafor
Published February 4, 2014 by DAW
ISBN-10: 0756407281
ISBN-13: 978-0756407285
Language: English
Length: 432 pages