The long-awaited return of one of the most garlanded writers of her generation.
We Need New Names (28k HB/TPB, 40k PB, 20k E) was shortlisted for the Booker, Guardian First Fiction; won a Betty Trask, Etisalat Prize, LA Times Book Award. NoViolet has won the Caine Prize, an NBA '5 Under 35', a Stegner Fellowship and a Truman Capote AwardThe fall of Robert Mugabe, and the devastating effects of his rule on the people of Zimbabwe, but through completely new eyes. We get to know everyone from leaders to villagers, and especially a group of females who gather around a goat called DestinyPolitical in intent and experimental in style, but always exciting, fun and funny to read, with characters to love and strong messages of hope and activism. Uses overheard conversations, reportage, social media posts, myth and folklore to create a true polyphony. For readers of
Things Fall Apart,
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Animal Farm/1984/The Handmaid's Tale NOVIOLET BULAWAYO grew up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. When she was eighteen, she moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her first novel,
We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and won a Betty Trask Award, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, the Etisalat Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She has also won the Caine Prize for African Writing and a National Book Award's '5 Under 35'. NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she taught fiction. She currently writes full-time, from wherever she finds herself.
Allegory, satire and fairytale rolled into one mighty punchBrave, and moving Vital and universal Few writers can engineer a sentence like NoViolet BulawayoBulawayo is really out-Orwelling Orwell. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022**
An exhilarating Animal Farm-inspired novel about power and corruption set in an animal nation trapped in a cycle as old as time, by one of the most exciting voices writing today.
'Bulawayo is really out-Orwelling Orwell. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny'New York Times Book Review
Narrated by a vivid chorus of animal voices that unveil the tyranny and ruthlessness required to uphold absolute power, Glory is the tale of an uprising and a country's implosion. And at the centre of it all, a young goat named Destiny, returning home to bear witness to a revolution.
Urgent, wild, dazzling with life and an irrepressible wit, Glory is a razor-sharp satire that unpicks power and shows how history can be halted in a moment.
'Glory is a masterpiece for our times. Gripping and exhilarating' Observer
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 VISIONARY ARTS AWARDS**
