Unbeknownst to Kaaro, she is an undercover S45 agent. He begins seeing a mysterious woman named Molara in the xenosphere. Sensitives begin dying of an unknown illness. Wormwood then creates the dome to separate himself from most humans Da stays within the dome and Kaaro does not. They are followed by S45 agents who shoot at Wormwood, but Kaaro senses the trap and saves him. Kaaro and Da travel to the future site of Rosewater, where they speak with Wormwood. He is tasked with tracking down Oyin Da, an anarchist revolutionary. In the 2050s, he trains with S45, a secret branch of the Nigerian government. He escapes and begins using his telepathy on the black market before being recruited by the government. The life of Kaaro, a sensitive, is presented throughout different decades.Īs a teen, Kaaro uses his burgeoning psychic abilities for thievery.

It exudes a fungus which interacts with human nervous systems, granting psychic powers to some human “sensitives”. In the 2050s, it creates an impenetrable dome in Rosewater, Nigeria. In 2012, an alien named Wormwood appears in London, substantially altering the world's geopolitical landscape.

The novel won the inaugural Nommo Award as well as the 2019 Arthur C. It was followed by two sequels: The Rosewater Insurrection and The Rosewater Redemption which were published in 2019 simultaneously. In Rosewater, Nigerian agent Kaaro uses his psychic powers to investigate a mysterious alien dome and deaths linked to it. Rosewater is a 2016 science fiction novel by Nigerian-British writer Tade Thompson.

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