Zulu Heart: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0446611956 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 656 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Steven Barnes lives in Longview, Washington, with his novelist wife, Tananarive due, and his daughter Nicki.
Barnes delivers the explosive follow-up to his groundbreaking alternate history novel "Lion's Blood"--in which African nationals colonized the New World--in this tale of a reimagined America circa 1860.
Aidan has a slight possibility of rescuing his beloved sister, and of helping Kai thwart his enemies, but the only chance of achieving these near-impossible goals requires that Aidan go undercover--a slave once more. But ex-slaves are always at risk, and an angry mob threatens Aidan, his family, and his entire village with slaughter or re-enslavement. Pharaoh takes Kai's sister hostage to manipulate Kai, even as Aidan discovers his twin sister, lost since childhood, is the property of a powerful foe of New Djibouti. Meanwhile, Kai is entangled in intrigues among not only his fellow senators, but the lords of Egypt and Abyssinia, who have sinister plans for the New World colonies. --Cynthia Ward. As Zulu Heart opens
"Wonderful extension of the world of Kai, Aiden, Laminya, Nandi, and all the characters from Lion's Blood" according to Stephen Matlock. This is just a fine book. It is the sequel, of course, to Lion's Blood, but I have to hand it to Mr. Barnes in that the story and the characters have advanced.We still have Kai and Aiden, brothers beneath the skin in a nation on the North American continent where things are delightfully awry compared to today--somehow in the distant past it was the African nations, and not the Europeans, who conquered th. Dannan Tavona said Zulu Heart a winner. Zulu Heart is the sequel to Lion's Blood. I would highly recommend that you begin with that novel first. A note -- Barnes deals with slavery in a realistic manner, so this is not for the faint of heart, and indeed, he has toned it down somewhat. What he describes is well documented by dozens of historians. Slavery means death, torture, and rape of the enslaved, and families shattered. Barnes, as black wr. Still original and ambitious, but drier than "Lion's Blood" Ashley Megan In this sequel to the breathtakingly original "Lion's Blood," Steven Barnes returns to his alternate America, now an African colony named Bilalistan. He also brings us back to his two main characters: Kai, a mystic Sufi and younger son who has now inherited the noble title of Wakil, and Aidan, his former Irish slave who now ekes out a frontier existence as a freedman.Supposedly, the heart of this book is