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Death of the author : a novel

Okorafor, Nnedi, author

2025

Overview

\"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.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
• Subject: Nigerian Americans Fiction. / Women with disabilities Fiction. / Movement disorders Fiction. / Science fiction Authorship Fiction. / Robots in literature Fiction. / Families Fiction. / Fame Fiction. / Américains d'origine nigériane Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Femmes handicapées Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Familles Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Renommée Romans, nouvelles, etc.
• ISBN: 9780063445789, 0063445786

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3615.K67 D43 2025	1	BOOK	GENERAL