by
Nnedi Okorafor
176 pages
Published
January 31st 2017
by Tor.com
Original Title:Binti: Home
ISBN:0765393107
(ISBN13: 9780765393104)
Edition Language:English
BLURB: It’s been a year since
Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was
declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she left
her family to pursue her dream.
And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders.
But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The flow of death like water I’d fallen into that in some twisted way gave me a new life.
Home is the aftermath of Binti going to Oomza Uni. Many changes in so little time, and she feels then is time to go home, to her pilgrimage.
There is so many themes here that I hesitate for where start. There is sci-fi that appeals to different ways of thinking , and made us aware of a future with other eyes and ethics. And there is sci-fi that made us think about our idiosincracy. This is old school sci-fi asking: we have to let go of ourselves to get live in another worlds? how much is too much or enough?
The quandary of the girl with her family, and what is expected of her is universal.
In another hand, we get trapped once more in the story for the strange culture, not the alien culture in case you're wondering, but for the Himba culture. I don't know how much is veridic or a piece of fantasy, but it's fascinating.
