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Who Fears Death Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Dream Award-winning book of a remarkable female in post-apocalyptic Africa.

Now optioned like 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 that has survived the annihilation of her village and a about Who Worries Death terrible rape by an enemy general wanders in to the desert, expecting to die. Rather, she gives delivery to an upset baby girl with locks and skin the color of sand. Gripped from the certainty that her little girl differs – special – she titles her Onyesonwu, which means ‘Who anxieties death?’ in an ancient language.

It doesn’t take miss Onye to comprehend that she is physically and socially marked from the circumstances of her conception. She is Ewu – a child of rape who is likely to live a lifestyle of assault, a half-breed declined by her community. But Onye isn’t the common Ewu. Even as a kid, she manifests the beginnings of an extraordinary and unique magic. As she grows, so do her capabilities, and during an inadvertent visit to the spirit realm, she learns something terrifying: someone powerful is trying to destroy her.

Desperate to elude her would-be murderer also to understand her own nature, she embarks on the journey where she grapples with nature, tradition, history, true love, and the religious mysteries of her tradition, and ultimately learns why she was presented with the name she bears: Who Fears Loss of life.