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Thirty thousand years ago, in the center of photography equipment and in the darkness of the major freestanding mountain on the planet, resided the Ibandi. For many generations they nurtured their historical tradition, and met survival’s daily struggle with quiet beliefs in their gods. But when brutal intruders showed up from the south, a few brave souls dared the best goal–to climb the fantastic Pile, seeking answers and a way into the future.
In this amazing blend of imagination, anthropology, and sheer storytelling magic, Steven Barnes calls for us to the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro and into the realm of our own ancestors, who lived, hunted, celebrated, and died hand and hand with roaming herds of wild animals and great golden clouds of migrating butterflies. A people whose epidermis was the colour and smell of the earth itself, the Ibandi produced a hierarchy based on durability of limb and spirit. In this extraordinary novel, we follow the escapades of two of the Ibandi’s chosen ones: T’Cori, an forgotten girl lifted by the powerful and inexplicable medicine female Stillshadow, and Frog Hopping, a young man possessing a surprise that is also a curse.
Though the live in various encampments, Frog and T’Cori are connected through the revered and powerful Stillshadow, who may have sensed in them a destiny apart from others’.
Through the years, and on their separate life paths, T’Cori’s and Frog’s fates entwine as an inevitable disaster techniques from the south–from the god they worship. For so long as there were mountain, sky, and savannah, there's been a home for the Ibandi. Now, in the face of an opponent beyond anything spoken of even in tale, they need to ask their god face-to-face: Do we continue to be or do we depart?
Great Sky Girl not only brings alive the world of prehistoric man but also shines an excellent light on mankind itself. For here is a storyline of rivalries and alliances, of real human fear and desire, of beliefs and betrayal . . . and, most importantly, a story of how primitive man, without words or machines, set in place civilization’s long, winding voyage for this.
