Death of the Author (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Nnedi Okoraforová

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THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLEROrder now and receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies lastfeaturing a special alternate cover design on the hardcover case, gorgeous sprayed edges, and exclusive endpapers. This breathtaking edition is only available on a limited first print run.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 ReviewIn 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 narrativea surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human in a compelling work of speculative fiction. 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 journeyone 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, a true book-within-a-book, will change the future not only for humanity, but for the robots who come next.A story 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 literary fiction novel 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 AngelsThere's more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor's work than in whole volumes. Ursula K. Le Guin

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