Zahrah the Windseeker

by Nnedi Okorafor

2005 · 314 pages

flight
adventure and adventurers
jungles
coming of age
fantasy
best friends

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About this book

Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor's speculative fiction novel Zahrah the Windseeker is an African cultural story about a young girl's heroic journey. Winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature "A consistently compelling and provocative tale.Locus

In the Ooni Kingdom, children born dada—with vines growing in their hair—are rumored to have special powers. Zahrah Tsami doesn't know anything about that. She feels normal. Others think she's different—they fear her. Only Dari, her best friend, isn't afraid of her.

But then something begins to happen—something that definitely marks Zahrah as different—and the only person she can tell is Dari. He pushes her to investigate, edging them both closer and closer to danger. Until Dari's life is on the line. Only Zahrah can save him, but to do so she'll have to face her worst fears alone, including the very thing that makes her different. This ebook edition includes bonus content and images

Quotes

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“Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.”
“It's ok to care about what other people think, but you should give a little more weight to what you, yourself, think...The habit of thinking is the habit of gaining strength. You're stronger than you believe.”
“Silence is the best answer to a fool.”
“Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.”