Death of the Author A Novel
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Erscheinungsdatum
14.01.2025
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HarperCollinsSeitenzahl
448 (Printausgabe)
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Englisch
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9780063391154
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Recommended by New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • Rolling Stone • Los Angeles Times • Reader's Digest • and more!
"This one has it all." - George R.R. Martin • "As delicious as it is disorienting." - Zakiya Dalila Harris • "Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt." - People • "Mind-bending." - New York Times Book Review
In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative-a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a story unlike anything you've read before.
The future of storytelling is here.
Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister's lavish Caribbean wedding, she's unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It's a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots.
When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journey-one that will catapult her into literary stardom, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space, Zelu's novel will change the future not only for humanity, but for the robots who come next.
A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written, Death of the Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Surprisingly funny, deeply poignant, and endlessly discussable, this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it.
"An ambitious, inventive tribute to the power of storytelling itself." - Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of The Measure
"A deeply felt dazzle. A blaze. It is true deep to the bones." - Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels
"There's more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor's work than in whole volumes." - Ursula K. Le Guin
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Wer erzählt hier eigentlich wessen Geschichte?
Nnedi Okorafor erzält die Geschichte von Zelu einer amerikanischen Autorin mit Yoruba- und Igbo-Wurzeln. Interessant ist die besondere Struktur des Romans. Kapitel aus der Ich Perspektive wechseln sich mit Kapiteln aus Zelus SF-Roman "Rusted Robots" und Interviews mit ihrer Familie ab. Wer Science Fiction, eine innovtive Erzählweise und Geschichten über Identität, Familie und Kultur mag wird diesen Roman ebenso lieben wie ich. -
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Rusted Robots
A fascinating and heartfelt example of a "book within a book", this novel follows Zelu, a paraplegic black woman of Yoruba and Igbo descent, on her rise to fame as a sci-fi author. Chapters of the novel she writes, 'Rusted Robots', as well as 'interview' chapters with the supporting characters, are included within the book and serve to frame Zelu's story. Zelu's struggles with her mental health, family relationships, and her fame keep this novel wonderfully grounded in reality even as its sci-fi aspects soar. An absolute must read!
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