Item No: #306988 The Shadow Speaker. Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu.
The Shadow Speaker
The Shadow Speaker

Scarce Signed African Futurism

The Shadow Speaker

Notes: The second book from this noted science fiction / fantasy writer who incorporates her Nigerian heritage into her work, a trend that is reinvigorating and internationalizing the genre. This novel is set in Nigeria in 2070 in a post-nuclear war world and features a fourteen-year-old Muslim girl as the narrator. Okorafor has won many prizes for her writing, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award.

Edition + Condition: First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by the author, "To Tony and Maria, I hope this novel takes you to new and wonderful places! Nnedi Okorafor." Books signed by Okorafor are notably uncommon. As she wrote on Twitter in 2018, "I’ve never done a book tour anywhere, heh. Not in my entire writing career." This is perhaps because of a spinal chord injury that limits her mobility.

Publication: New York: Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, 2007.

ISBN: 9781423100331

Item No: #306988

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