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We need new names
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ISBN: 9780701188047 0701188049 9780701188030 0701188030 9781448156238 1448156238 Year: 2013 Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus,

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Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, she and her friends grasp at memories of before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. Darling has a chance to escape to America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few.


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Glory : a novel
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ISBN: 9780525561132 Year: 2022 Publisher: [New York, NY] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,

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"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."--


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We need new names
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ISBN: 9780099581888 Year: 2014 Publisher: London : Vintage Books,

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‘To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in – who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart?’Darling and her friends live in a shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing. It isn’t all bad, though. There’s mischief and adventure, games of Find bin Laden, stealing guavas, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices.They dream of the paradises of America, Dubai, Europe, where Madonna and Barack Obama and David Beckham live. For Darling, that dream will come true. But, like the thousands of people all over the world trying to forge new lives far from home, Darling finds this new paradise brings its own set of challenges – for her and also for those she’s left behind.

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Glory
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ISBN: 9782080415400 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paris : Autrement,

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Il y a longtemps, dans un pays de cocagne pas si lointain, les animals vivaient heureux. Puis vinrent les colonisateurs. Après de longues années de domination, une guerre de Libération sanglante rendit l’espoir aux citoyens. Elle leur apporta un nouveau dirigeant, un cheval tyrannique – la Vieille Carne – qui commandait au soleil et gouverna, gouverna et gouverna encore, avec l’aide d’un cercle d’Élus, d’un groupe de cruels Défenseurs et, quand il fut vieux, de sa jeune épouse bien-aimée, l’ambitieuse ânesse Merveilleuse. Mais même les sots de ce monde savent qu’il n’y a de nuit si longue qui ne s’achève par une aube. Et elle s’acheva pour la Vieille Carne un jour où elle prenait son thé Earl Grey en écoutant son émission de radio préférée. Une fois de plus, les animals retrouvèrent l’espoir. Glory raconte l’histoire d’un pays pris dans un cycle vieux comme le monde. Et pourtant, tout en révélant les artifices nécessaires pour maintenir l’illusion d’un pouvoir absolu, cette satire mordante nous rappelle que l’Histoire peut basculer en un clin d’œil : il suffit du retour d’exil d’une fille depuis longtemps disparue, d’élections libres, justes et crédibles, d’un vent changeant – même d’une simple balle.

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