num_pages: 31
description: By fate and fire a being four millennia old is reborn in Mali in a short story of contemporary African life and ancient secrets by the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author of the Binti trilogy.Issaka has returned home to Timbouctou and a devastating al-Qaeda raid. His only hope for survival is Faro a stunning blue-beaded supernatural entity who rises free from the flames of her imprisoning book as it burns. Compelled to follow Faro Issaka is opening his eyes to their shared history and the ancestral wisdom of his own past.Nnedi Okorafors The Black Pages is part of Black Stars a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Each story is a world much like our own. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.
language: English
title: The Black Pages
publisher: Amazon Original Stories