Their true definitions of what it means to BE are rewritten All these things are going on in Binti and her friends. So many things have happened to force maturity: death, war, resistance, resignation, acceptance. Old enemies will be hard pressed to accept changes that she,a master harmonizer, will bring about. I walked faster.“īinti Ekeopara Zuzu Dambu Kaipka Meduse Enyi Zinariya New Fish of Namib embarks on the biggest journey of her life: the journey within. And nothing is coincidence, or so my mother used to always say. “Everything is so complicated and connected, I thought. Incident follows incident in a dizzying array, action is fraught with enough emotion for drama to become melodrama, and several key plot points are inadequately foreshadowed, but Binti's powerful feelings of displacement, loss, grief, and joy make this entertaining narrative vivid, funny, and memorable. Only Binti, who happens to be bonded to a Meduse in a hive-mind symbiosis, can possibly blend the cultures, technologies, viewpoints, and interests of all these groups and attempt to bring about a lasting peace. The Himba, however, are in danger of being caught up in an outbreak of war between the human Khoush tribe and the jellyfish-like alien Meduse. Binti has always identified with her mother's people, the Himba, who see her father's folk as uncultured barbarians. This is an inheritance from her father's tribe, the Enyi Zinariya, that allows her to communicate across long distances, view historical events at the sites where they happened, and experience other similarly disorienting things.
Okorafor's lively, dramatic third and final Binti far-future science fantasy novella (after Binti: Home) finds Binti, the young protagonist, struggling to integrate new perceptions from the recently awakened alien technology in her body.
Once again it is up to Binti, and her intriguing new friend Mwinyi, to intervene-though the elders of her people do not entirely trust her motives-and try to prevent a war that could wipe out her people, once and for all.ĭon't miss this essential concluding volume in the Binti trilogy.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse.įar from her village when the conflicts start, Binti hurries home, but anger and resentment has already claimed the lives of many close to her. The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.īinti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind.
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