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We Need New Names
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Author : NoViolet Bulawayo
language : en
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
Release Date : 2013-05-21
We Need New Names written by NoViolet Bulawayo and has been published by Reagan Arthur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-21 with Fiction categories.
Finalist for the Booker Prize: the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America (New York Times Book Review), from the author of Glory. Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and 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. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in 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. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her — from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. Coetzee — while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. "Original, witty, and devastating." —People
We Need New Names
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Author : NoViolet Bulawayo
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-06-06
We Need New Names written by NoViolet Bulawayo and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Fiction categories.
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE ** Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: it's down, or out '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. 'Extraordinary' Daily Telegraph 'A debut that blends wit and pain... Heartrending...wonderfully original' Independent 'Sometimes shocking, often heartbreaking but also pulsing with colour and energy' The Times *NoViolet's newest book Glory - shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 - is out now*
Glory
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Author : NoViolet Bulawayo
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2023-02-28
Glory written by NoViolet Bulawayo and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with Fiction categories.
2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST “Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review "Genius."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, an exhilarating novel about the fall of an oppressive regime, and the chaos and opportunity that rise in its wake. 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.
When A Crocodile Eats The Sun
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Author : Peter Godwin
language : en
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date : 2008-04-10
When A Crocodile Eats The Sun written by Peter Godwin and has been published by Back Bay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years. Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their loyalty. Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity, another world. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.
Zebra Crossing
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Author : Meg Vandermerwe
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-03-01
Zebra Crossing written by Meg Vandermerwe and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Ghost. Ape. Living dead. Young and albino, Chipo has been called many things, but to her mother – Zimbabwe’s most loyal Manchester United supporter – she had always been a gift. On the eve of the World Cup, Chipo and her brother flee to Cape Town, hoping for a better life and to share in the excitement of the greatest sporting event ever to take place in Africa. But the Mother City’s infamous Long Street is a dangerous place for an illegal immigrant and an albino. Soon Chipo is caught up in a get-rich-quick scheme organised by her brother and the terrifying Dr Ongani. Exploiting gamblers’ superstitions about albinism, they plan to make money and get out of the city before rumours of looming xenophobic attacks become a reality. But their scheming has devastating consequences. Set in the underbelly of a pulsating Cape Town, Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing is an arresting debut and a bold, lyrical imagining of what it’s like to live in another person’s skin.
Country Country
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Author : NoViolet Bulawayo
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-02-06
Country Country written by NoViolet Bulawayo and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with Political Science categories.
Glory
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Author : NoViolet Bulawayo
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-04-07
Glory written by NoViolet Bulawayo and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-07 with Fiction categories.
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022** Discover an exhilarating novel about power and corruption set in a nation trapped in a cycle as old as time. 'A masterpiece for our times. Gripping and exhilarating' Observer 'Uplifting and original' Stylist This is the story of a country on the brink of revolution. It's the story of Destiny, who returns home to witness the uprising. It's a story for all of us, and a reminder that history can be changed in the blink of an eye. 'A novel with heart and energy' Daily Telegraph 'Bulawayo is really out-Orwelling Orwell. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny' New York Times Book Review ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 VISIONARY ARTS AWARDS**
If He Had Been With Me
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Author : Laura Nowlin
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2013-04-02
If He Had Been With Me written by Laura Nowlin and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-02 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...
Ancestor Stones
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Author : Aminatta Forna
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-05-02
Ancestor Stones written by Aminatta Forna and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-02 with Fiction categories.
Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but the layers of years are too many. Thus begins the gathering of her family's history through the tales of her aunts - four women born to four different wives of a wealthy plantation owner, her grandfather. Asana, Mariama, Hawa and Serah: theirs is the story of a nation, a family and four women's attempts to alter the course of her own destiny.
All Our Names
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Author : Dinaw Mengestu
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-06-05
All Our Names written by Dinaw Mengestu and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Fiction categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015 Two young friends join an uprising against Uganda's corrupt regime in the early 1970s. As the line blurs between idealism and violence, one of them flees for his life. In a quiet Midwestern town in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, an African student falls for the woman who helps him settle in. Prejudice overshadows their relationship, yet it is equally haunted by the past. Both men are called Isaac. But are they one and the same?