Glory
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
$23.21
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2023
Summary
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
‘You thought you were getting a novel as good as We Need New Names, but Bulawayo’s second is even more dazzling’ Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Guardian
Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating joyride. It is the story of an uprising, told by a bold, vivid chorus of animal voices that helps us see our human world more clearly.
A long time ago, in a bountiful land not so far away, the animal denizens lived quite h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529114225 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529114225 |
| Author: | NoViolet Bulawayo |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Allegory, satire and fairytale rolled into one mighty punch * Guardian *
Brave, and moving – Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *
Vital and universal – Hepzibah Anderson * Observer *
Few writers can engineer a sentence like NoViolet Bulawayo * Irish Times *
Bulawayo is really out-Orwelling Orwell. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny * New York Times Book Review *
Glory revels in the absurd but offers a terrifying vision of political disintegration for readers today * Financial Times Summer Reads of 2022 *
An urgent and engaging meditation on the farce of totalitarianism and the struggle of those who live under it to forge something better * i *
Glory is a witty and moving tribute to the people of Zimbabwe and their history * Literary Review *
Bulawayo broaches what it means to fight for democracy and call somewhere home in a timely and imaginative way … A memorable, funny and yet serious allegory about a country’s plight under tyranny and what individual and collective freedom means in an age of virtual worlds and political soundbites – Franklin Nelson * Financial Times *
It delivers, over the course of 400 pages of wordplay and animal magic, a surprisingly warm, intimate and, yes, human feeling – Melissa Katsoulis * The Times *
NoViolet Bulawayo
Noviolet Bulawayo was born in Tsholotsho a year after Zimbabwe’s independence from British colonial rule. When she was eighteen, she moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. In 2011 she won the Caine Prize for African Writing; in 2009 she was shortlisted for the South Africa PEN Studzinsi Award, judged by JM Coetzee. Her work has appeared in magazines and in anthologies in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK. She earned her MFA at Cornell University, where she was also awarded a Truman Capote Fellowship. She was also a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University in California, where she now teaches. Her first novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013.
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