Imaro

✍ Scribed by Charles R. Saunders

• Publisher: DAW Books
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 140 KB
• Series: Imaro 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Saunders' novel fuses the narrative style of fantasy
fiction with a pre-colonial, alternate Africa

Growing up among the Ilyassai, a fierce tribe of
warrior-herdsmen who despise his origin, the young Imaro struggles for
acceptance after the breaking of a taboo forces his mother to leave him
behind.

The boy becomes a man, unlike any other the Ilyassai has
ever seen. His quest acceptance and identity continues. Yet he learns he has
powerful enemies, human and inhuman. Prevailing over foes who desire nothing
more than to see him dead, Imaro finds that in victory, there can be loss.

Departing from the Ilyassai, Imaro roams afar, wandering
across the vast continent of Nyumbani, pitting his prodigious strength and
courage against men, beasts and demons

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"Imaro, Charles Saunders' first novel, is not a
paste-up of previously published short stories, but a true novel. It covers
Imaro's origins, youth and early career, introducing you to a whole new flavor
of heroic fantasy, created by a man who has obviously made a thorough study of
African mythologies. He is still developing as a prose stylist, but he has a
gift for characterization, a happy knack of eschewing the obvious, and a born
storyteller's instincts. If, like me, you have enjoyed some heroic fantasy in
the past, but have been waiting for something new to happen in the genre,
this is it. I look forward to more of Imaro and more from Charlie
Saunders."

-Tom Easton, Analog