02689cam a2200589 i 4500 335290748 ER5 20171130120000.0 110408s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011389634 9780756406172 075640617X 9780756406691 0756406692 (OCoLC)462898816 ER5 rda Okorafor, Nnedi. Who fears death / Nnedi Okorafor. New York, NY : Daw Books, Inc., [2010] ©2010. 386 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. Magic Fiction. Magic. Genocide Fiction. Genocide. Rape victims Fiction. Rape victims. Single mothers Fiction. Single mothers. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Mothers and daughters. Shamans Fiction. Shamans. Fate and fatalism Fiction. Fate and fatalism. Death Fiction. Death. Fiction. Africa Fiction. Africa. Dystopias Fiction. Dystopias. Fantasy fiction. Dystopian fiction. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2011389634-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2011389634-d.html Publisher description https://catalog.hmcpl.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=319916