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Unawqi, Hunter of the Sun
Author: Kali Kucera
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 218
Genre: Mythical Realism
Author: Kali Kucera
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 218
Genre: Mythical Realism
In a time when
supernatural and industrial worlds are staged to collide, an Andean boy finds
himself in the center of an epic struggle between the cosmos and the earth.
Unawqi is born with both insurmountable power and a fate of certain death, both
of which are challenged by his hunt of the emperor, Aakti, the Sun: the very
force that desires to abandon the earth unless Unawqi can overcome him.
Premise:
How easily we take the Sun for granted. We are conditioned to its rising and
setting on time, and assume it enjoys doing so, or more likely is indifferent. Unawqi,
Hunter of the Sun reveals a more perilous tale: the Sun, Aakti, is a being
who is a reluctant player in providing light and warmth to our world, and even
more has always desired to leave us to die if he didn’t have certain personal
complications standing in his way. Aakti will stop at nothing to get what he
wants, even if that involves murder of his own kin or annihilation of an entire
living planet. Ironically, what holds him back is the very life he is creating;
the family from which he tries to but cannot wrest control, and among them a
young intrepid boy emerges, a hunter who sets out on a journey, not to stop the
Sun, but to overcome him with a force we also take for granted: our humanity.
