![]() ![]() Even as a child, she manifests the beginnings of a remarkable and unique magic. She is Ewu - a child of rape who is expected to live a life of violence, a half breed rejected by her community. ![]() It doesn't take long for Onye to understand that she is physically and socially marked by the circumstances of her conception. Gripped by the certainty that her daughter is different-special-she names her Onyesonwu, which means 'who fears death?' in an ancient language. Instead, she gives birth to an angry baby girl with hair and skin the colour of sand. 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. ![]() In a postapocalyptic Africa, the world has changed in many ways yet in one region genocide between tribes still bloodies the land. An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in postapocalyptic Africa. ![]()
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