Binti: The Night Masquerade
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Publisher Description
The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.
Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse.
Far from her village when the conflicts start, Binti hurries home, but anger and resentment has already claimed the lives of many close to her.
Once again it is up to Binti, and her intriguing new friend Mwinyi, to intervene--though the elders of her people do not entirely trust her motives--and try to prevent a war that could wipe out her people, once and for all.
Don't miss this essential concluding volume in the Binti trilogy.
The Binti Series
Book 1: Binti
Book 2: Binti: Home
Book 3: Binti: The Night Masquerade
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Okorafor's lively, dramatic third and final Binti far-future science fantasy novella (after Binti: Home) finds Binti, the young protagonist, struggling to integrate new perceptions from the recently awakened alien technology in her body. This is an inheritance from her father's tribe, the Enyi Zinariya, that allows her to communicate across long distances, view historical events at the sites where they happened, and experience other similarly disorienting things. Binti has always identified with her mother's people, the Himba, who see her father's folk as uncultured barbarians. The Himba, however, are in danger of being caught up in an outbreak of war between the human Khoush tribe and the jellyfish-like alien Meduse. Only Binti, who happens to be bonded to a Meduse in a hive-mind symbiosis, can possibly blend the cultures, technologies, viewpoints, and interests of all these groups and attempt to bring about a lasting peace. Incident follows incident in a dizzying array, action is fraught with enough emotion for drama to become melodrama, and several key plot points are inadequately foreshadowed, but Binti's powerful feelings of displacement, loss, grief, and joy make this entertaining narrative vivid, funny, and memorable.
Customer Reviews
best novel i've ever read
the emotional intensity, the confusion, the turmoil & the joy that radiates from these pages makes this sci fi novel worth reading again and again and again.
Holy cow
“Everything is so complicated and connected, I thought. Everything. And nothing is coincidence, or so my mother used to always say. The space between my eyes stung. “Used to.” No longer. I walked faster.“
Binti Ekeopara Zuzu Dambu Kaipka Meduse Enyi Zinariya New Fish of Namib embarks on the biggest journey of her life: the journey within. New frontiers will be explored. New connections will be made. Old enemies will be hard pressed to accept changes that she,a master harmonizer, will bring about. But what of that will resonate within?
So many things have happened to force maturity: death, war, resistance, resignation, acceptance. All these things are going on in Binti and her friends. Their true definitions of what it means to BE are rewritten
This is the finale of the Binti trilogy. In some ways it is reminiscent of a “messiah story”. This last book is too hard to write a review of without spoilers. You’ll simply have to read all three to see the overarching mythos Nnedi Okorafor is presenting. As a 62 year old retired minister,I may see things differently than others do. I hope so. Highly Recommended 5/5
[disclaimer: This is a library book]
Awesome trilogy
One of the best stories I’ve read in a while.