Nnedi Okorafor’s Noor is her first Novel for Adults in 6 years, See Cover
Due for release on November 9 from Daw Books, Nnedi Okorafor’s Noor — an Africanfuturist story is her first novel for adults in 6 years.
Noor is set in a near-future Nigeria and centers on Anwuli Okwudili (aka AO), a cybernetically enhanced woman.
Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt…natural, and that’s putting it lightly. Her parents spent most of the days before she was born praying for her peaceful passing because even in-utero she was “wrong”. But she lived. Then came the car accident years later that crippled her even further. Yet instead of viewing her strange body the way the world views it, as freakish, unnatural, even the work of the devil, AO embraces all that she is: A woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations. And then one day she goes to her local market and everything goes wrong.
Once on the run, she meets a Fulani herdsman named DNA and the race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria begins. In a world where all things are streamed, everyone is watching the “reckoning of the murderess and the terrorist” and the “saga of the wicked woman and mad man” unfold. This fast-paced, relentless journey of tribe, destiny, body, and the wonderland of technology revels in the fact that the future sometimes isn’t so predictable. Expect the unaccepted.
Bustle in an exclusive on April 12, unveiled the cover of the novel.
The beautiful illustration which features a black woman possibly the lead character, Anwuli Okwudili was done by Greg Ruth. Ruth designed the covers of other Nnedi’s works like the Akata books, Binti Omnibus edition, the 10-year anniversary edition of Who Fears Death among others.
Noor is available for pre-order. Do that here.
Nnedi Okorafor is the author of the Akata books, Who Fears Death, Binti novellas, Kabu Kabu, Book of Phoenix, Lagoon, La Guardia, e.t.c. She is a recipient of both a Hugo and a Nebula awards.
