TY - BOOK ID - 129304222 TI - Glory : a novel PY - 2022 SN - 9780525561132 PB - [New York, NY] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, DB - UniCat KW - Animals KW - Animaux KW - Coups d'État KW - Coups d'état KW - FICTION / African American & Black / General. KW - FICTION / Literary. KW - FICTION / Political. KW - Politics and government. KW - Revolutions KW - Revolutions KW - Revolutions. KW - Révolutions KW - Totalitarianism KW - Totalitarisme KW - Africa KW - Africa KW - Africa. KW - Afrique KW - Politics and government KW - Politics and government KW - Politique et gouvernement UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:129304222 AB - "NoViolet Bulawayo’s bold new novel follows the fall of the Old Horse, the long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows for a rumbustious nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president of nearly four decades, Glory shows a country’s imploding, narrated by a chorus of animal voices that unveil the ruthlessness required to uphold the illusion of absolute power and the imagination and bulletproof optimism to overthrow it completely. By immersing readers in the daily lives of a population in upheaval, Bulawayo reveals the dazzling life force and irresistible wit that lie barely concealed beneath the surface of seemingly bleak circumstances. And at the center of this tumult is Destiny, a young goat who returns to Jidada to bear witness to revolution—and to recount the unofficial history and the potential legacy of the females who have quietly pulled the strings here. The animal kingdom—its connection to our primal responses and its resonance in the mythology, folktales, and fairy tales that define cultures the world over—unmasks the surreality of contemporary global politics to help us understand our world more clearly, even as Bulawayo plucks us right out of it. Although Zimbabwe is the immediate inspiration for this thrilling story, Glory was written in a time of global clamor, with resistance movements across the world challenging different forms of oppression. Thus it often feels like Bulawayo captures several places in one blockbuster allegory, crystallizing a turning point in history with the texture and nuance that only the greatest fiction can."-- ER -