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Noor focuses on a number of themes, including cybernetics, tradition, renewable energy, critiques of capitalism, gender identification, solarpunk ideology, and a futuristic retelling of the farmer-pastoralist conflict of Nigeria. [2] [8] Reception [ edit ]

Okorafor has a gift for inner dialogue; her protagonist’s reaction to herself and her environment inspires the reader’s sense of being there. I knew war left deep wounds in the lives of the people of my country. I had yet to know how that impacted the Pakistani soldiers, could they really sleep in peace, how much they regret it. Would Ali’s dormant memory torture him at some point of his life… Noor is the first book I read on Pakistan's account of 1971’s liberation war of Bangladesh. The war that gave birth to my land, set my soil free. When Barbara recommended this book to me and said that I might be interested as the story is related to the 71's liberation war, I was like, yes, I HAVE TO read this. I have to read their accounts, not accounts of a politician, but accounts of a common soldier, of someone living in Pakistan and following the war news on the radio. What do they keep in their memories about that time?

Arab countries will not prosper and stabilize as long as the Zionist entity exists within the body of the Arab nation. Anwuli Okwudili, more commonly known as AO, is no ordinary woman. After having to endure life with many physical defects, some she had to suffer since birth while others were inflicted on her through a tragic accident, AO, with the help of high-tech equipment supplied to her by a top-tier organization called Ultimate Corp, was able to "fix" her defects by getting new implants, and since her defects were so many, one would wonder if AO is more machine than human at this point. This obviously doesn't help with social integration, and AO is an outcast, looked down upon by most people. After an incident takes place where AO had to resort to fatal violence to defend herself from being brutally murdered, she was forced to escape the town she lives in and head to the ruthless desert to save her life, but nature there might even be as cruel, if not crueler, than her persecutors. In the depths of the desert, AO encounters another outcast, just like her, and the two of them must escape together, knowing very well that the path they are treading leads straight to a terrible desert sandstorm that has been raging on for years on end, slowly getting worse and spreading its reaches to the south. The big bad is a global biotech company with fingers in many places. We follow AO on a journey of sorts after her engagement is broken off. A lot of seemingly random things occur, but a lot of it does come together at the end, even if it takes awhile to get there. One element I found entertaining is the subversion of the "magical negro" trope by instead having this mystical white man appear and offer the main characters wisdom on their journey. And also marijuana. Setting a white character as the exotic other in this way is an interesting choice. There’s a portion of the book that is a kind of story-in-a-story, where the origin of a lot of the technological advancements in this society are explained. Not to give too much of that away, but it features a girl decades and decades before the events of the novel, and the lines between our world and theirs intersect at multiple points. I would have preferred this tangent story to tie in more to the events of the book, or at least to have gotten more time with its major players, though it might have distracted from the rest of the text. Still, it’s one of my favorite parts of the book so I’m a little greedy for more of it.I have mixed feelings about Noor. I loved the world-building to bits! Okorafor did such a fantastic job developing everything about AO's augmentations and how they worked as well as the presence Ultimate Corp throughout and their influence over everything and everyone. The social commentary regarding that was excellent and I loved how it was done and all of the twists exposing who they really were and what they were capable of. I am a fan of the author's writing having read six of her previous works and I will continue to read new releases and catch up on old ones. Another complaint is that there are a couple chapters written in italics. This is another thing I've come across in more than a couple newer books. Do authors or publishers or whoever makes this decision no longer read The Elements of Style? Italicized words are hard on the eyes and should be used sparingly and not for more than a couple words or a phrase at a time. Okorafor’s visions of futuristic Africa are always so interesting, and this time she sets her story on the vast, dusty plains of Northern Nigeria. The world-building in Noor is fantastic. The Red Eye is a constant threat to those who live nearby, and I don’t want to spoil the story by revealing certain things about it, but trust me, it's pretty cool. The government has developed a machine called an anti-aejej that can protect users from the sand, and people often carry personal anti-aejejs with them when they go outside. Huge Noors—which relate to the book’s title—act as wind turbines to create electrical energy for distant cities. I loved the idea of “wireless energy transfer,” invented by a woman named Zagora, who AO idolizes. Her idea allows all the energy gathered from solar farms to be wirelessly transferred to cities. Okorafor explains that she got many of her ideas for the story from visiting a solar plant in Africa called the Noor Solar Complex. Finally, AO and DNA discover a large anti-aejej deep in the desert called the Hour Glass, a hidden structure that moves every hour and is a sanctuary for people like AO and DNA who are on the run.

The world our protagonist, AO, inhabits is heavily influenced by mega-corporations and is social-media addicted. (So I guess not too far off from today?) AO is a cyborg, having been born with numerous birth defects. Cybernetic limbs become even more necessary when the damage to her body is made much worse by a catastrophic car accident when she was 14.

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Noor follows the life of Anwuli Okwudili who changed her name to AO - short for Artificial Organism. She was born with birth defects and made the choice to get augmentations to her body. She embraces the pain and her choices and is determined to live life on her own terms. Others call her freak, devil, and worse and see her mechanical legs and arm as abomination. The day comes where AO protects herself in self-defense and her life is destroyed. Contributing to the advancement and development of Arab societies and spreading culture and awareness This sci-fi novel marks my foray into Afrofuturism, and I’m glad it is helmed by a character as adamant and outspoken as AO. One of the main reasons I was engrossed right from the get-go is how straightforward AO’s demeanour (and subsequently, her voice) is.

This invention interweaves beautifully with the narrative in a way that closed the circle the Noor's inception started by the ending. (No spoilers!) Moreover, sunlight in general stands in for transparency and the exposure of immoral actions and dealings, but also, I think, spiritual wellbeing. As in seeing one's flaws and coming to accept and embrace them as part of the whole.

On the fourth day he felt like a mercenary.....In the end he'd fought and killed for an unremarkable reason : to save himself.'