Nidemon Doris Lessing with huge ambition and a

with huge ambition and a teeming imagination

in a fascinating portrait of an exceptional child

but when their world begins to clash with that of human beings

Now she is back

burning paper flowers in front of her shrine and its Yoruba gods

Nidemon Doris Lessing with huge ambition and aFleeing the Nomadin, Ilien seeks aid from the last person he ever thought would give it. For his father, Gallund, is held prisoner by an enemy immune to Nomadin magic, an enemy who would use him to release an unthinkable evil upon the world. To rescue him, Ilien must forsake all he knows to be true. He must learn a forbidden magic. He must discover who he truly is, or become . . . NiDemon.