Somadina
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Description de l’éditeur
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award finalist and author of Pet comes a novel set in a magical West African world, about a teen girl who must save her missing twin while learning to navigate her own terrifying new powers.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Elle, Horn Book, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, The Boston Globe Blue Ribbon Awards List
Somadina and her twin brother, Jayaike, are practically the same person: they finish each other's sentences and make each other whole. When the twins come of age, their magical gifts begin to develop, but while Jayaike's powers enchant, Somadina's cause fear to ripple through her town.
Always an outsider, Somadina now faces blatant--and dangerous--hostility. And things go from bad to worse when her brother—the one person she trusted—vanishes. Somadina knows that no matter the dangers, she must track him down. Even if it means entering the Sacred Forest. Even if it means grueling, otherworldly travel she may not survive. Even if it means finding the hidden places where those closest to the spirit world don't dare to go. Does Somadina have the strength --within both her body and her soul -- for the trying journey ahead?
National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi masterfully weaves a tale of family, identity, and the power of the past, in a world where the extraordinary is ordinary.
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Like everyone in their village before them, Sọmadịna and her twin brother, Jayaike, are eager to come of age and receive magical gifts from their "primordial mother," diety Ala. When their powers finally develop, however—more than a year after those of their peers—the abilities don't represent the happy revelation that Sọmadịna expected. While Jayaike can disappear at will, Sọmadịna's abilities prove far more dangerous; somehow, with a single word, she kills a village boy who was assaulting a young girl. Though the village council sentences Sọmadịna to death for her actions, her older sister and grandfather, renowned dịbịas in service to the gods, successfully block the execution order. Still, Sọmadịna's relationship with her mother suffers, as she considers both twins to be "abominations." Then, when a strange hunter kidnaps Jayaike, Sọmadịna sets off to rescue her brother. A fast-paced plot fosters excitement and intrigue, while Sọmadịna's dedication to Jayaike, and the feeling of home and safety the twins inspire in each other, adds an emotionally resonant through line. Intertwining messages of family, hope, and self-confidence, as conveyed via a determined and headstrong heroine, permeate this robust adventure across a fantastical, West Africa–inspired landscape by Emezi (Bitter). Ages 12–up.
