Death of the Author (Standard Edition)

A Novel

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<p><b>2026 NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER<br>WINNER OF THE LIBBY AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION<br>WINNER OF BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, 2026 LOCUS AWARDS</b></p><p>THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER</p><p><b>Recommended by <i>New York Times Book Review</i> </b>• <b><i>People</i></b> • <b>NPR • <i>Rolling Stone</i> </b>• <b><i>Los Angeles Times</i> </b>• <b><i>Reader's Digest</i> </b>• <b>and more!</b></p><p><b>“This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris • “Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt.” — <i>People </i>• “Mind-bending.” — <i>New York Times Book Review</i></b></p><p><b>In this exhilarating tale by<i> New York Times</i> 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.</b></p><p><i>The future of storytelling is here. </i></p><p>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 <i>Rusted Robots.</i></p><p>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 ca

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780063445789

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

233 x 162 x 37 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. USA