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Resumen del libro

It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places.And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders.But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace.After generations of conflict can human and Meduse ever learn to truly live in harmony.
Praise for Nnedi Okorafor:"Binti is a supreme read about a sexy, edgy Afropolitan in space! It's a wondrous combination of extra-terrestrial adventure and age-old African diplomacy. Unforgettable!" - Wanuri Kahiu, award winning Kenyan film director of Pumzi and From a Whisper"A perfect dove-tailing of tribal and futuristic, of sentient space ships and ancient cultural traditions, Binti was a beautiful story to read. Little Red Reviewer
Binti is a wonderful and memorable coming of age story which, to paraphrase Lord of the Rings, shows that one girl can change the course of the galaxy. Geek Syndicate
Binti packs a punch because it is such a rich, complex tale of identity, both personal and cultural and like all of Nnedi Okorafor's works, this one is also highly, highly recommended. Kirkus Reviews
"There's more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor's work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics." -Ursula Le Guin
"Okorafor's impressive inventiveness never flags." - Gary K. Wolfe on Lagoon

Biografía del autor

Nnedi Okorafor (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1974), de ascendencia igbo, es hija de padres nigerianos que fueron a Estados Unidos y no pudieron volver por la guerra de Biafra. Tras estudiar y afincarse en Estados Unidos, comenzó a escribir relatos en 1993 y en 2005 publicó su primera novela. Desde entonces, ha ganado los principales premios de la literatura fantástica y de ciencia ficción: el Hugo, el Nebula, el Locus y el World Fantasy Award. Algunos de sus libros más destacados son Binti, Quien teme a la muerte y Bruja Akata (Nocturna, 2019), cuya historia continúa Guerrera Akata (Nocturna, 2021) y Mujer Akata (Nocturna, 2023). En la actualidad imparte clases en la Universidad de Búfalo, en Nueva York, y compagina la docencia con la escritura.