· Everfair is a deeply-thought novel, ambitious in its execution. Shawl’s prose is vivid, filled with striking images: often bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. · Shawl's speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human rights disasters on record into a marvelous and exciting exploration of the possibilities inherent in a turn of history. Everfair is told from a multiplicity of voices: Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans in complex relationships with one another, in a compelling range of voices that have Brand: Tom Doherty Associates. · 8 Comments on Everfair by Nisi Shawl Everfair is a story that spans decades and continents. It tells the history of a country that never was, one where “Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.
Nisi Shawl's novel of the same name explores the diverse cast of characters that make up Everfair's population, its founders, and the people who are fighting to keep it alive. Amongst these are individuals searching for identity, justice, and one whose quest changes as he undertakes it. Everfair. by Nisi Shawl. Share your thoughts Complete your review. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. Rate it * You Rated it * 0. 1 Star - I hated it 2 Stars - I didn't like it 3 Stars - It was OK 4 Stars - I liked it 5 Stars - I loved it. Please make sure to choose a rating. Kisangani to Manono, Everfair, June Tink made his way slowly among fresh ruins. Most of the palace had been destroyed by demonstrators. Not the cellars, and not the gardens, which flourished, unconfined now by walls on all but one side. Not the royal hives lined against that lone wall. The royal bees seemed unperturbed by the surrounding.
Everfair. Reviews and Interviews Background Articles. Everfair National Anthem Readers are invited to write and offer further verses to the anthem by emailing them to nisis (att) aol (dott) com. Sources of Everfair's Sexual Mores. Aircanoes. Wendi-La, by Sir Matthew B. Jamison. Everfair Links. Everfair Bibliography. Picture Album. Steam Bicycle. 8 Comments on Everfair by Nisi Shawl Everfair is a story that spans decades and continents. It tells the history of a country that never was, one where “Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo’s “owner,” King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated.
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