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“Binti is a sixteen-year-old girl of the Himba people, who are in Namibia. She is a mathematical genius…Binti is the first of her people to leave the planet. She’s leaving for Oomza Uni, which is a huge university. On the way there, terrible things happen, because of another people called the Meduse… But somehow, Binti can communicate with these people, who have been enemies of humans for a very long time. It’s a coming-of-age story, but it’s also a first contact story, where you sort of solve problems by communicating. It’s about ending cycles of violence.” Read more...
“These books are set in different worlds and the characters are not all human. But they all, in some way, conform to certain psychologies that are recognisable to us.” Read more...
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