Book description
Your feelings are of no consequence.
Shad-Dari has escaped her past, her dreams now in reach. An excavator of the valuable old sounds of Órino-Rin, she steals tiny, unheard fragments of the sacred songs to erase the painful echo of her home planet, Ekwukwe. In one rebellion too far, she…
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1 author picked Songs for the Shadows as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is a Sauútiverse novella set in Afrocentric universe of five planets and focusing on sound, music, language, cultures, and histories.
This lyrical story in chanting prose and the meditation of sound and silence encapsulates the reader in matters of time, life, and grief, as our protagonist Shad-Dari seeks to escape her past.
From Eugen's list on Afrofuturistic books in speculative fiction.
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